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...Smith settled his six feet, six inches (plus) into two of the Varsity Club's cushioned lounge chairs and said: "I've had a wonderful time these last two weeks." The thin man from Columbus, captain of the 1950-51 varsity basketball team and an All-Ivy and All-New England first team selection, tuned down the radio at his elbow and explained just what he had been doing during the past fortnight...
Both the X-2 and the X-3 will have to include some striking changes in aircraft design. The thin air at extreme altitudes will require novel wing shapes. Also, the enormous quoted speeds (comparable to the top speed of a plunging V-2 rocket) may heat the wings and fuselage above the yield point of metals like aluminum. Engineers also have another big problem: how to keep a pilot functioning in an airplane designed to go above the stratosphere. Presumably, that, too, has its solution on the drawing board...
...bomber approaches the target, it climbs to seven miles and every crew member dons arctic clothing and oxygen masks against the thin, cold air. Below, a radar unit keeps an eye on the plane's approach, checks the accuracy of its simulated bomb drop. Finally, while Detroit slumbers, unaware that it has been "demolished," the crew members relax from a job which-to them-is already routine. Audiences are more likely to find the trip fascinating, reassuring and, in all its implications, more than a little frightening...
...experience," Dr. Tracy B. Mallory '18, professor of Pathology, revealed last night. There have been many cases of people thinking they were ticking, but nothing like this, he reported. His explanation was that it might possibly be the pulse beat in an artery amplified by hitting against a thin bone in the head...
...Prensa's death had been expected ever since the paper fell into a government-encouraged coma two months ago. Dictators are notoriously thin-skinned and Prcon and his wife Evita could not endure the barbs of La Prensa indefinitely. The only question was whether they would take the step of complete suppression, knowing that an unfavorable response in other countries was inevitable...