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That left Ky in a strong position. A hotshot, American-trained aviator of 34, Ky affects orange coveralls, pearl-handled revolvers and political dash...
Kills Every Time. If a Stenodus exhausts all of its detergent in one 45-ft. dash, it needs a week or more to replenish its supply. But the canny beetle seems to know this and uses its emergency throttle sparingly. Linsenmair and Jander watched Stenodus beetles turning and weaving like PT boats, as if to catch their enemies squarely in their wakes. Like most weapons, though, the Stenodus' go power can be outmaneuvered: the detergent works only astern, and water striders on frontal-attack patterns made kills every time...
...short of his own pending world record (see box). The high jumpers quit at 6 ft. 10 in., blaming the runway; the pole vaulters called it a day at 16 ft. 6 in., complaining about the wind. Henry Carr, the world record holder in the 200-meter dash, ran fourth in his specialty...
Among the pleasures of playgoing in Europe is the privilege of buying a drink at a theater bar during the interval. In the U.S., theater patrons have to quench intermission thirst with a wax-enriched fruit drink, or else dash out to a neighborhood bar, there to fret about missing the second-act curtain. In an attempt to get around the New York law prohibiting the sale of liquor where no food is served, a Manhattan theater last year decided to give free drinks to its patrons. This largesse was quickly stopped by the State Liquor Authority...
...building a permanent Hall of Science, now partly open, at the World's Fair. In all of them the principle, as Don M. Muchmore, former director of the California Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles, puts it, is: "A touch of Aristotle and a dash of Barnum...