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Five varsity skiers turned in what Coach Don Kennedy described as "very encouraging performances" last Saturday at Cannon Mountain in their first competition of the season...
Lack of snow has forced postponement of the four event ski meet scheduled for Cannon Mountain at Franconia, N.H., this weekend. It was to be the first meet of its kind ever held on Cannon Mountain...
...atomic bomb? It took a B-29 to carry the first one, dropped on Hiroshima, which may have weighed more than 10,000 Ibs. The Army's announcement last week that it will abandon its monstrous, 11-in. atomic cannon tells how much the bombs have shrunk. The new atomic shells will fit an 8-in. gun. Since they will have to withstand the shock of firing, they will be much like ordinary 8-in. shells. They will have an internal cavity about 22 in. long and about 5½ in. in diameter in the center. This is apparently...
Last Stand. Head's cannon ball and Hartwig's fine backhand won two quick sets despite one diehard net play from a reinvigorated Seixas. Coming back with his best performance of the afternoon, Trabert belted a two-handed push volley past the astonished Australians, smashed ahead to win the fourth set and tie up the match...
...rainbow-colored Dieseland, divers will splash into four feet of water in the world's biggest dump truck (50 tons), and the public will tramp around a host of diesel-propelled attractions ranging from an 85-ton atomic cannon to a 63-ft. shrimp boat. The star of the show: G.M.'s new, 10-car, 400-passenger Aerotrain, which is twice as light and less than half as expensive as conventional passenger cars. To make the diesel debut complete, the company has built a grandstand where 7,000 spectators can watch an hour-long musical (title: "More Power...