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...yachting a mass U.S. sport by popularizing smaller boats with lower costs-6-Meters, Stars, Interclub Dinghies. Last year he paid more than $300,000 to buy and refit the 12-meter Columbia, successful 1958 America's Cup defender, in hopes of repeating, but the Columbia failed to brace up in trials, and the Weatherly won the 1962 defense against the Australians...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF UPTON SINCLAIR (342 pp.)-Harcourt, Brace & World...
They were gone the instant they came-a brace of Air Force RF-101 jets screeching 200 ft. above Florida's Homestead Air Force Base. On the reviewing stand, President Kennedy turned to General Walter Sweeney, commander of the Tactical Air Command, and asked: "They wouldn't have been able to shoot down those ships at that speed and altitude, would they?" The general said no. Said Kennedy: "I'd like to see them again." And so the reconnaissance jets once more simulated the flights that had helped document the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba...
...process, a water-cooled, 30-ft.-long steel lance is lowered through the top of the furnace, like a narrow straw into a thick-walled cream pot, and sprays compressed oxygen at supersonic speeds over the bubbling mix. With a roar that would drown out a brace of jet fighters, the oxygen burns off the sulphur, carbon and other impurities in the white mass. Because it takes barely half an hour to cook a batch of LD steel, v. eight hours in the conventional, open-hearth furnace, the oxygen process melts the costs of labor, power and fuel. Production costs...
...LETTERS OF OSCAR WILDE (958 pp.)-Edited by Rupert Hart-Davis-Harcourt, Brace & World...