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...accepted Finnish method of keeping the arms back along the sides, somewhat like the trailing wings of a jet fighter. "I've just evolved the style myself," says Recknagel. "When I'm going right, I can feel the air under my skis and my body like a cushion. The farther I jump, the more I feel the air, and I like those long jumps." Explains one admiring Finnish sports editor: "Recknagel's jump is a sort of diving, leaping, flying thing-and very brave...
...terrifying sensations. Their arms and legs, like reflections in an amusement park's crazy mirror, seem to change size and shape continually. The ground rolls like an ocean swell. The simplest tasks become all but impossible. Victims are unable to sew without making their hand a pin cushion, to peel a potato without cutting it in half, to crack an egg without smashing it. The ears ring...
...Government also agreed to buy up to 54,000 tons a year for five years, beginning in 1959, of Harvey's primary aluminum output for U.S. strategic stockpiles. Since the reduction plant's capacity is only 60,000 tons a year, this was a healthy demand-cushion for Harvey. In 1959 the company asked the U.S. to buy only 19,500 tons, this year will offer only 12,000 tons...
...Kennedy's favor, although the final count was 50.2%-49.8%. Only Veteran Elmo Roper, who reported on election eve that Nixon looked to squeeze ahead by two percentage points, chose the wrong winner; yet even Roper claimed to "feel wonderful," because all such samplings allow themselves a 4% cushion...
Died. Welker Cochran, 63, swaggering billiard sharpshooter and Willie Hoppe's longtime touring opponent, world's champion six times in three-cushion, twice in balkline competition between 1927 and 1946, who trained for a match like a boxer, doing roadwork around Central Park and giving up smoking, once remarked, "The killer instinct is part of a billiards player"; of a heart attack; in Belmont, Calif...