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...three-quarter course in 8:43.4 to set a new course record. Left in the Crimson's wake: Rutgers, Wisconsin, M.I.T. and Boston University. ¶ Unheeding of the raw wind and rain at last week's Penn Relays, High Jumper John Thomas, 19, loped toward the barrier, kicked high, sailed over the bar to set a world's outdoor record of 7 ft. 1½ in. The previous mark of 7 ft. 1 in. was set by Russian High Jumper Yuri Stepanov in 1957 while wearing built-up shoes of a type now banned. Thomas already holds...
...citizens' going behind the Bamboo Curtain. Porter promptly sued, claimed violation of his constitutional rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals last week upheld a lower court decision against Porter. The decision: Porter rates no better than any other citizen in trying to crash State's travel barrier...
...Deerfield has become an unwilling part of a supersonic age. Jets from Westover Air Force Base, 25 miles to the south, blur past overhead-and lower the sonic boom on peaceful Deerfield. "Why can't they go out over the ocean if they want to break the sound barrier?" asks a local schoolteacher. His complaint is as familiar on the West Coast as on the East. And in the last three years, more than 1,000 civilian damage claims, seeking more than $500,000, have been filed against...
Actually, the breaking of the sound barrier is nothing more than the point at which the noise is turned on. Air is a fluid, and, above the speed of sound (about 760 m.p.h.), it reacts much like the surface of a lake when a speedboat rips across it: waves go out and roll toward land. The sonic boom occurs when the shock wave from a jet hits the nearby ground. It follows the plane wherever it goes, and the pressure may make a sound equal to ten thunderclaps...
...pearls, rather like fetters; Empress Anna's cathedral bell, a 200-ton monument to Old Russia, damaged by fire in 1737 and never hung; the golden crowns gorged with diamonds-all these are works of art. Yet this is art not as communication but as excommunication, a barrier defining the unbridgeable distance between the rulers' unlimited power and the cowed abasement of the poor and weak. The seeming paradox that the Communists cherish this "imperialistic" treasure-trove is a tribute not to their good taste, but to their psychological astuteness. They recognized that the Kremlin housed...