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...Robert McNamara," he reported, "brushes his hair straight back, in the style of, better brace yourself, Jack Pickford or the late Douglas Fairbanks. The fact that I have to reach back four decades to describe his hairdo will only stress the curiously old-fashioned look of him. Some men dash into a room, some gallop, others float, burgeon, slide, pad, lope or glide. McNamara's entrance is something between a creep and a stroll...
...Spitz has been a water baby since he was two, when his father, a steel-company executive, was transferred from Modesto, Calif., to Honolulu. "We went to Waikiki every day," recalls Mark's mother. 'You should have seen that little boy dash into the ocean. He'd run like he was trying to commit suicide." After four years in Hawaii, the Spitz family moved to Sacramento, Calif., where Mark got his first competitive instruction at a local Y.M.C.A. By the time he was ten, the youngster held 17 national age-group swimming records, and when...
...lift during takeoff and landing, folds back for less drag at supersonic speeds. Its "terrain radar," which automatically adjusts the plane's altitude to accord with the topography, is supposed to enable the plane to hug the ground while flying at a speed of 900 m.p.h. and thus dash in below the enemy radar net. If the first F-111 did hit a mountain, it was probably due to a malfunction in the terrain radar. The Russians, who have been experimenting with a swing-wing plane of their own, would learn a great deal if they could retrieve parts...
...curlers slide a 44-lb. block of highly polished granite that looks like a wheel of cheese with a handle on top. And the game has evolved into a test that combines the finesse of golf with elements of lawn bowling, horseshoe pitching and pool-plus a dash of chess strategy. A rink (four-man team) scores one point for each stone it keeps closer to the bull's-eye than any rival stones. An expert curler can slide his stone more than 100 ft. down the ice with a spin so fine that it will curl tightly between...
...Aesop's fable the tortoise plodded along the course while the hare slept at the starting line thinking he could win with a late dash. Your cover [March 8] has mismounted your politicians...