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...freshman lightweights had a neck-and-neck race for the first 1,000 meters, holding leads which covered around half a deck over Penn and Cornell. In the next 500 meters, stroking a precise 34, the Crimson went out ahead by a full length and held it against hapless challenges by Penn and Cornell...
...both cases the vessels were plying well-traveled Caribbean channels and carrying about 500 passengers and crewmen beneath idyllic, moonlit skies. As foreign ships, neither conformed fully to American safety standards. Each of the fires occurred in the early-morning hours, when only a few revelers lingered on deck...
...great goal of the airmen is to devise an automatic landing system that will work 100% of the time, whatever the weather, and eliminate the cause of more than half of all fatal crashes. The British are building a computerized autopilot that brings the plane right down to the deck; theoretically, it would fail only once in 1.25 billion landings, but even that is too much for U.S. airmen. Ultimately, computers will control all flight patterns, analyze the weather, and do much of the work in takeoffs and landings. The computers are not smarter than man; they simply solve...
...from Santiago, Cuba's second largest city, bound for Havana with 91 passengers. Among the crew was Flight Engineer Angel Betancourt Cueto, who was prepared to risk his life to escape Cuba. Seventy miles west of Havana. Betancourt made his move. Locking the door that separates the flight deck from the passengers, he suddenly slugged the guard who stood just behind the pilot and copilot and ordered Captain Fernando Alvarez Perez to set a course for Miami. "From this moment," as a government communiqué later described it, Havana's "flight control, in combination with the air force...
...filing statistic-studded essays on the whaling and sugar industries. He was at his best when he gave in to his sense of humor. Of lower-class Hawaiians traveling on an inter-island schooner, he reported that "as soon as we set sail the natives all laid down on deck as thick as Negroes in a slave pen, and smoked and conversed and captured vermin and ate them, spit on each other, and were truly sociable." Hawaiian oranges were delicious, although "I seldom eat more than 10 or 15 at a sitting, however, because I despise to see anybody gormandize...