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...started its powerful jet engines. As the roaring exhaust hit the pavement below, a spray of dirt and melted tar boiled into the air. When the X-13 became airborne, Pilot Girard maneuvered it off its suspension rig and free of the framework. Then he flew it upward like a deliberate rocket and made a gradual pushover to normal level flight...
...that have been proposed for getting you out to the golf course a little faster than you can make it in a car?" At the question Eisenhower showed more anger than most Washington correspondents have ever seen him betray. His face bleached, and then a flush of red spread upward from his neck. After a moment of dead silence he glared, and his words came like small-arms fire. "Well, I don't think much of the question, because no helicopters have been procured for me to go to a golf course...
...missiles and missile launchers are racking up a business of $10 million a year. *Where Kin Tartars, defending the city against the rampaging Mongols, used both fire-powder bombs and "flying fire spears" which "burst forward with a sudden flame to a distance of ten paces and upward so that no one durst approach them...
...average family's expenditures-balanced declines of other prices. And what happened in 1956, when the cost-of-living index zipped up a worrisome 3%, was that non-goods prices kept on rising, while prices of food and manufactured goods reversed their downward trend and inched upward...
Missing Assembly Line. Why, amid the ups and downs of other goods, do non-goods prices creep steadily upward? Partly because they are still catching up with the steep rises of food and manufactured-goods prices in 1945-52. But partly-and more significantly, in a long-range view-because productivity rises more slowly in the service field than in manufacturing. The assembly line is missing, the possibilities of automation scant; machinery can do little to speed up the output of the barber, the bartender, the cop, or the bureaucrat. Yet, in order to hold workers in a period...