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...Frost wanted a vertical take-off-which is quite a trick. Even such a powerful jet engine as Pratt & Whitney's J-57, with about 10,000 Ibs. of thrust, can barely lift its own weight vertically. After countless wind-tunnel tests, Frost finally found what he thinks is a solution in an aerodynamic principle known as "the Coanda effect...
...TUNNEL OF LOVE (246 pp.)-Peter De Vries-Little, Brown...
...conductor and narrator of this particular trip through The Tunnel of Love is a slap-happy cartoon editor named Dick. He sometimes wanders off the track to a dream cottage and holds imaginary conversations with beautiful women: "I like . . . deep woods and the smell of pine," one beauty murmurs. "I love pine." "I love yew," whispers Dick...
...says wistfully. "I still can't go down in the elevator and step out on the intake and look up without being inspired." M-K introduced bulldozers to its partners at Hoover, wound up using 60 huge monsters. There, too, M-K showed off a new tunnel-driving technique using drill jumbos, great scaffolds on which men with 40 drills could hammer away at the same time, thus cutting costs drastically. Hoover was finished in five years, and MK's share of the $10.4 million profit was about...
...Last week an M-K crew was in the Brazilian jungle expanding the Cubatao hydroelectric project to give the city of São Paulo 400,000 more kilowatts of electric power. On the $20 million job, M-K men were boring a 3,500-ft. river-diversion tunnel, blasting a huge underground powerhouse from the bowels of a mountain. The air was blue with humidity; the sides of the cavern dripped water; every so often, a chunk of rock broke loose, came crashing down like a thunderbolt in a closet. The men knew that they might catch amoebic dysentery...