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...Money. Lewis, alas, was unable to compete in the 172-mile race himself because he had four broken ribs, three cracked ribs and a gash on his skull-mementos of the Houston Channel Derby two weeks before. But he sent out no fewer than eight of his boats, including Thunderbird, a 32-ft. aluminum "hot dog" powered by two 500-h.p. United Aircraft gas turbines and piloted by Designer-Driver Jim Wynne. So radical that it was classified as experimental (and therefore ineligible for the winner-take-all $3,000 prize), Thunderbird had been clocked at 65 m.p.h. in practice...
...when the producer cuts to David, who comes in as a lurid lavender. By the time Brinkley is attuned (pale pink skin, blue eyes), there is a switch to a remote Frank McGee looking sickly green at Cape Kennedy. Similarly, every break for a commercial or shift to another channel could require a readjustment. Given the errant ways of all flesh, a listener who wants realistic color can hardly afford to take his hands off the controls...
...land 21 times the size of Texas, the country has too few people to put its money to work efficiently. Libya has not enough skilled labor to meet the demands of oil companies and the booming construction industry, not enough competent administrators to channel oil revenues into properly planned projects, not enough trained government officials willing to make decisions. Rents and prices have more than doubled in five years. On the outskirts of Tripoli, Benghazi and Tobruk have grown up squalid Bidonvilles where thousands of Bedouins, attracted from the desert by the lure of the city, live in houses made...
...early 1941, when Hitler's troops stood poised across the English Channel from Britain, American churchmen had mixed feelings about U.S. entry into the war. One of the most outspoken advocates of the Allied cause was Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, a onetime pacifist who had come to see that stance as "utopianism" in the face of Nazism's threat to Western civilization. With a group of like-minded thinkers, Niebuhr founded a biweekly journal of Christian opinion to oppose the prevailing pacifism of church leaders and to relate the Gospel message to problems of war and peace...
...year France gets her revenge. October 14th is the 900th anniversary of the subjugation of the Anglo-Saxons by that doughty Norman, William the Conqueror. The five departments of ancient Normandy are planning all sorts of festivities, starting in April and including a yacht race to Hastings across the Channel as well as to what should be a well-attended convention of all the descendants of the Conqueror's army...