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...equal of any Ivy League fullback, West invariably spots his opening and rumbles through the hole for four to eight yards a clip. Even when there is no hole, West often creates his own by bowling over a few linemen...
...shocked cry went up from the crowd as the leaders roared to the end of a straightaway and into a graveled S curve at a 100-m.p.h. clip. One of the cars just ahead of Goldschmidt, a red Ferrari driven by Veteran Racer Sam Collier,* suddenly spun out of control, whipped halfway through the curve, plunged down a 6-ft. embankment, spun end over end three times. Driver Collier was flung free but died an hour and 20 minutes later of a crushed chest and head injuries...
...revalue their currencies in coming months. Biggest reason: there has been a drastic change in the U.S. trade position with the rest of the world. Gold, which had flowed into the U.S. until it piled up a hoard of $24.6 billion, is now flowing out at a fast clip. This year the U.S. may well lose $2 billion worth or more...
Based on a Robert Heinlein novel and filmed in technicolor, "Destination Moon" picks on a theme s unique that the move, almost by definition is highly incredible. This is to be expected, since heading for the moon at a clip of seven miles a second is a sensation no man has yet experienced. But the producers of the picture sometimes carry things to absurd extremes. For instance, when the rocket lights on the moon, the participants must first of all take part in a walky-talky interview via New York, for they are now celebrities...
...case, and then watches him stumble through a baffling maze of provincial customs and courtroom procedure. The plot is predictable, but Producer Joan Harrison and Director-Star Robert Montgomery wring some wry chuckles from their bull-in-the-china-shop situation, and keep the story moving at a lively clip...