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...addition to the finals in all the field events, trials in the shorter running events are slated for this afternoon. Look for the Crimson to build up a solid margin after today's competition and watch the lead balloon when the runners take over the field tomorrow...
...What really irritated Kosygin was that government officials in many cases had been forced to ride in dump trucks. Russia currently has fewer than 1,500,000 passenger cars, ranging from the tiny Moskuich (comparable to the old-model German Opel Rekord but priced at about $4,000) to balloon-tired Chaikas that sell for $12,000. But even if a Soviet worker could afford a car, he would have to wait five years or more for delivery under current production rates. Though Kosygin would like to change that, it is obvious that it will be 15 or 20 years...
...buzz-bomb and V-2 rocket projects. Director Michael Anderson sedately re-creates some rather tumultuous sessions of British officialdom in 1943, reducing history to a few thoughtful demurrers from Churchill's scientific adviser, Professor F. A. Lindemann (Trevor Howard). "It's a balloon," he remarks, peering through his pipe smoke at photographs of the Peenemünde launching site. And: "If it were a rocket, it could never get off the ground...
...pure oxygen at just about the pressure that he would breathe it on earth. As air escaped from the lock, the vacuum of space reached into it like a monster's claw. The oxygen in Leonov's suit tried to expand, and the suit inflated like a balloon. The cosmonaut must have listened anxiously for the hissing of tiny leaks. But all went well; he flung open the outer door and was the first human to look the deadly vacuum full in the face...
...THEATER) has just moved into his drab, cluttered flat. In Luv they are leaping off his bridge; gypsies are dancing in his fortunetelling parlor in Bajour. Sherlock Holmes is struggling with Moriarty on his cliffs of Dover in Baker Street; Ben Franklin is still joyously ascending in his balloon; and Dolly is giving her big hello from his Yonkers streetcar. In all, the seven sets account for more than one-third of the shows on Broadway, and all seven are the work of kinetic, white-haired Oliver Smith...