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...must also be able to slow down to a crawl for the 90° turns-and do it quickly. Last year Cunningham & Co. saw the British Jaguars snatch victory from them with new disk brakes that withstood the 24-hour pounding without too much "fading," i.e., loss of bite. This week the third racing car in the Cunningham hangar was being fitted with a radical new set of liquid-cooled brakes whose specifications are still secret. This car, a Cunningham-V-12 Ferrari, is entered in the 200-mile President's Cup Race at Andrews Air Force Base next...
...represent one of the high points of orchestral technique. That the string section did not attain a corresponding brilliance and body was not surprising. But they did achieve what is within the reach of the best amateur groups; that alertness which results in playing even the "easy" parts with bite an precision, and an unanimity and assurance in the entrances. Burgin allowed himself virtually no shadings in the tempo within a given section. This was regrettable, though perhaps unavoidable, for Schubert seems longest when he's gotten over most quickly; and the memory of a Mahier 4th performance...
What most present-day detractors of the food don't realize is that although they may occasionally bite into something resembling a spike, the present dining hall system is paradise itself compared to the perpetual state of anarchy that existed prior to 1929--when a Yale man stepped in and gave the University its first organized food system...
Stevenson began his analysis of Soviet power and the Allied counterchecks with a description of U.S. disillusion after World War II, "when the treacherous Russian bear, our comrade in arms, rose up to bite the hand that...
Blared a headline in the Los Angeles Mirror: "WOLF BOY" REARED BY ANIMALS BOLTS RAW MEAT, SNARLS, BITES. Said the Indianapolis Star: SNARLING "WOLF BOY" FOUND IN INDIA. All over the U.S. last week, newspapers printed such sensational headlines over wire service stories from New Delhi, describing in wide-eyed fascination the discovery of a "nine-year-old 'wolf boy' " with clawlike hands and a double set of upper-jaw incisors "who walks on all fours, wolfs down raw meat and laps water like an animal . . . There was some speculation the boy might have been reared by jackals...