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Only a few years ago, designers thought that at the speed of sound, turbulent shock waves would pound a plane to bits. But when jets pushed aircraft up to the sonic barrier, it turned out to be nothing worse than a bump in the road. Plane after plane passed over into the exhilarating calm of supersonic flight. In the current issue of Skyline magazine, Vice President Ray Rice of North American Aviation, Inc. explains why the thermal barrier can only be pushed ahead, never completely overcome...
...learn the rumba, baby?" He took her for a ride in his blue convertible, with the gold initials on the door, and she shudderingly recalls that the only time the speedometer dipped below 100 m.p.h. was when he rounded a curve. On the way home, Desi hit a bump and, as Lucille tells it, a fender flew off. He simply flicked the ash from his Cuban cigarillo and sped...
...little. Laid in Texas, it tells of a violent killer who breaks out of the pen, and of a small-town sheriff's fierce efforts to recapture him without having to kill him or let the townspeople string him up. Since the desperado is almost more anxious to bump off the sheriff than to make a getaway, the situation is fairly knotty...
...Tommy guns on the bumpy ice. Brooks Dodge, also a Dartmouth man and Beck's Olympic teammate, loomed out of the fog at terrific speed, frantically clawing at his misted goggles. One skier blindly pounded on to the flat before he knew he had reached it, hit a bump, hurtled into the air and pinwheeled four times before he hit the ground...
...took off her skis and began a laborious trek, often hip-deep in snow,* down the 1,000-meter course. At each of the 59 "gates," the flag-decked poles marking the obligatory turning points, Andy paused and made mental calculations. She carefully gauged each hillock and bump, guessed at her racing speed, and mentally mapped a line of descent to follow. At the bottom she rested, then trudged back up the course, stopping again at each gate to review and correct her calculations. She was adding her own figuring to the slalom racer's standard formula...