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...drivers, crossing natural and national frontiers, had less hair-raising or unhappy tales to tell. But most had delays and troubles. The Stockholm starters, who had to cross over on the ferry from Hälsingborg, got bogged down when a French gendarme sent them on a 30-kilometer detour. The Palermo starters, who ran into the toughest driving of all, had to ferry across the Strait of Messina and take a railroad flatcar ride through the Simplon Tunnel. They also hit fog at Florence and sleet at Milan. Though the Italians got a special dispensation to exceed the rally...
...rocket ship is to avoid collisions with meteors, said Dr. Fred L. Whipple, chairman of Harvard's department of astronomy, it should keep pretty well out of the orbits of the earth and the comets, and particularly try to detour around the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But a collision with a meteor won't necessarily be fatal. "Most penetration," said Dr. Whipple, "could be eliminated by a 'meteor bumper,' a second skin of small thickness a short distance outside the true skin of the ship. Meteorites would explode on that bumper and lose most...
...West last week struck a blow for A.P. Correspondent William Oatis, imprisoned in Czechoslovakia on charges of "espionage" (TIME, May 7). The U.S., Great Britain and France jointly prohibited Red Czechoslovakia's airlines from flying over West Germany. The prohibition means that the Czech airlines will have to detour hundreds of miles to make their flights...
...Circulation Manager Hugh Dasbach, 62, who has been delivering the paper since he was 14 years old. Days before the high water, he had foreseen trouble, had lined up trucks, airplanes, wagons and a small flotilla of boats to get the papers through, over and around the floods. Sample detour: the truck to Manhattan-120 miles away-traveled over a 470-mile detour through St. Joseph, Mo. and Marysville, Kans...
...detour from her singing career, Margaret Truman went to Hollywood to try her voice at radio drama, playing the wife of Cinemactor James Stewart in an adaptation of the movie Jackpot on NBC's Screen Directors' Playhouse. Despite a few carping notices from critics who seemed to be angling for letters from the White House, Actress Truman (who earned a fat $2,000 fee for her debut) turned in a surprisingly competent performance, committed no fluffs. (Actor Stewart, who got second billing on the show, made three.) Asked about rumors of a possible movie career, Margaret Truman said...