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...yards from the island, Boykowycz stepped into a hole and lost his footing. He slipped under and was swept downstream. Behind him, scrambling for footholds or handholds, the entire line was washed into deep water. Some panicked. By the time Boykowycz regained his footing and helped other counselors drag survivors ashore, six scouts had drowned. But their absence was not noted until the bedraggled bunch had been assembled on the shore for roll call...
...What many economists find most encouraging is that there is no single weak sector that threatens to pull the economy down. Inventory buying is expected to remain at the $5 billion level in the third quarter, and may rise in the final period. Says a top Administration economist: "That drag is behind us." Plant and equipment spending, although trimmed slightly, will still be 14% ahead of last year and close to the 1957 record of $37 billion. Federal highway spending under the federal aid program will double to $1.4 billion in the next three months; Government purchasing will rise...
...make the scene, and in the morning he drives her over to see her analyst. Soon they are sharing the same toothbrush, but he wants to write, and one night he flobs off to somebody else's pad. She flips but good, and goes ankling down the main drag with nothing on but her epidermis. In the end, though, she announces that she is pregnant, and he promises to marry her, get a job, straighten up and fly right back to bourgeois respectability...
...with Coach George Haines of the Santa Clara Swim Club. "This little guy always had a big heart," says Haines. "In some ways his light weight is an advantage. He has broad shoulders for power, but very thin legs, and he rides high in the water. This means less drag." In his daily training sessions Clark works out with another Haines pupil: Santa Clara's Chris Von Saltza, the U.S.'s finest all-round girl swimmer. A blonde and matured mermaid at 16, Chris can swim longer and harder than Steve, loves to challenge him in a round...
...over Kodiak, Alaska, where a radio control station sends an order that sets the guidance system on a new track, tilting it 60° from the horizontal. An electric impulse fires explosive bolts to kick off a re-entry capsule, a retrorocket slows the capsule's speed, a drag parachute pops out, a radio beacon shrills signals, and aluminum chaff is released to show on the radar screens of the recovery aircraft and ships waiting anxiously below. All this must be accomplished on a rigid time schedule with millisecond accuracy if the Discoverer is to be successfully recovered...