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Most unlimited hydroplane jockeys nurse an unlimited hatred for Miss Pepsi. Their own heavy craft are designed to skim the surface, bouncing along on three small hunks of hull. Air flows under the almost flat bellies, and the boats try their best to take off. Almost any bump can send them soaring. In a qualifying run for last year's Gold Cup, Driver Lou Fageol rode Slo-Mo-Shun V into an airborne loop, parted company with his boat, got beaten up so badly when he slapped the water that he quit racing on the spot. In a qualifying...
...late employer who, it appears, was a big-moola blackmailer. Mitchum chases (and is chased) all over Europe before he even digs up this sore-thumb fact, while the blackmail victims-quislings who never quisled because Hitler never got around to invading their countries-earnestly try to bump Mitchum off their vile, traitorous scent. In all, Foreign Intrigue rates as the murkiest black-and-white color film of the year, lacking only a chase through sewers to lend it a more poignant aroma...
...past, Congress and the Commerce Department have been reluctant to spend for air safety. But in view of last month's fatal collision, the supplemental appropriation is expected to fly through without a bump...
...Some who have tried: Joe DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich, Dizzy Trout, Waite Hoyt, Gus Mancuso, Jack Graney, Harry Heilman, Gabby Street, Pie Traynor, Bump Hadley, Mickey Heath, Dizzy ("He slud into second") Dean, Buddy Blattner, Frankie Frisch...
...carrier cows and see if his calves are ever dwarfs. This takes a long time, so the cattle experts are trying hard to find some other system. Dr. Paul Wallace Gregory of the University of California at Davis has invented a "profilometer," an instrument to detect the slight bump on a bull's forehead which shows that he may be a carrier. Sometimes X rays are used to look for the "crumpled" vertebrae that carriers sometimes have. Chief obstacle to cleaning the herds of carriers is the cattle fanciers' love of low-slung critters likely to carry...