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Powell, a onetime Colgate javelin hurler, seemingly had all the assets. He is 46, while Bailey is 69. Powell is an arrow-straight 6 ft. 4 in., and Bailey, who stoops slightly, is at least half a foot shorter. Powell is a heavyweight (190 Ibs.); Bailey could probably make the welterweight limit...
From here on, Porter implies, the engineers have little cause for optimism. With the moon, earth and spaceship all moving at high speed in their respective orbits, there could be no arrow-straight courses. The spaceship would have to be directed and launched so that its orbit coincided exactly with the moon's passing; an error in initial speed of a thousandth of a mile per second (5 ft.) might mean missing the moon altogether. For the moon's gravitational pull to take effect, the spaceship must first exactly match the moon's 2,278-m.p.h. speed...
...things. He knows that strong feelings are as dangerous as disease, having read articles like "Emotion Can Give You a Running Nose." He is a pragmatist, a materialist, a "healthy sceptic," a "tough realist" -and Author Whitman warns-he is "as inadequate to our time as a bow-and-arrow on a 20th century battlefield...
...Eaters of Kumaon, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag); of a heart ailment; in Nyeri, Kenya. Born into a British family which has been connected with India for 200 years, Jim Corbett grew up in the tiger-haunted Kumaon Hills, tracked his game successively with a catapult, bow and arrow, muzzle loader and .450, killed his first man-eating tiger in 1907. After that he was repeatedly called on by the government to track man-eaters, made his most famous kill when he got the Champawat tiger, which had eaten 436 people. He repeatedly voiced his admiration for the cats...
...threat followed an attempt by a CRIMSON editor earlier Wednesday to find out whether lack of funds had forced Feeney and his group to vacate their headquarters on the corner of Bow and Arrow Streets, opposite Adams House...