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...necessity. Starting in 1927, when transatlantic radiophone service began, the volume of New York-London messages alone had grown from 2,000 to 101,500 in 1955. Meanwhile, wavelength limitations not only overloaded but doomed the transatlantic radiophones to a meager 15 circuits that were at the mercy of static, sunspot interference and fading. Following bursts of sunspot activity, delays on overseas calls sometimes ran up to seven hours; occasionally the blackouts have been known to last for days...
Rising Ratio. The ideal VTOL may come into being through the continuous improvement of jet engines. Research Engineer Earl R. Hinz of Ryan Aeronautical Co. points out that when the static thrust of an airplane's engines exceeds the airplane's weight, a vertical take-off is possible-at least in theory. Apparently no operational jet plane has such thrust at present, but the ratio of thrust to weight-even with the low-power figures still published by the security-morbid U.S. Department of Defense-is climbing rapidly. For the F-86 Sabre jet the ratio is four...
...What an extremely sad commentary on our culture is shown in your article about Paul Richer and his teaching experience in Riceville, Iowa [April 9]. If many could have their way, they would undoubtedly keep our culture stagnant and static. MORTON DECORCEY NACHLAS Allentown...
...Economics, agreed with Elder on graduate expansion, but questioned the validity of his statistics. Harris estimated that only 4 to 5 million would be enrolled by 1970, and that Harvard would not be as hard-pressed as other colleges since it draws most of its students from the relatively static East...
...production. The fault here is in part due to the play itself, since Richard II lacks a great deal of motion and excitement. Director Glenn Goldburg does not quite manage to surmount this shortcoming. His blocking takes good advantage of the arena stage, but it tends to be rather static, especially in the long first act. Nevertheless, his staging is always visually interesting, and it is questionable whether any director can inject motion into a play that often does not move...