Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hostages to Burn. At guard-change time one afternoon last week, Myles and Smart directed half a dozen other hard cons in a fast grab of two guards, armed with .30-cal. rifles. Young Smart coldly shot Deputy Warden Theodore Rothe dead. Other ringleaders captured Warden Powell, used the telephone to lure in other staffmen, slashed one guard who resisted, locked up five stoolpigeon convicts, whipped up some 30 other inmates (total: 435) and armed them with knives and meat axes. At nightfall the warden talked one convict into helping him escape, quickly called for an attack by National Guardsmen...
...Three Kentucky Derby favorites-First Landing, Atoll and Intentionally-broke fast and stayed in front for most of the running of the $88,100 Wood Memorial at New York's Jamaica race track. But the pace was too fast, and a 64-to-1 long shot named Manassa Mauler charged through on the inside, won by three-quarters of a length to take $55,915 first money...
Scholar Waterhouse, a chunky, sandy-haired young man, admits to a complete lack of talent in art and athletics but gets straight A's in everything else. Physics Teacher Morris Hoffman says the boy is "lightning fast in his thinking; a test that takes most students 40 minutes is a five-to-ten-minute affair for Bill. He never had a formal biology course, and quite a bit of the general aptitude tests are based on biology. He said, 'Oh, I got a book and read it.' He can see right to the crux of a matter...
Once in orbit, the little jets went back into action. To keep the satellite horizontal, they had to make it turn just as fast as it circled the earth: one revolution, one turn. This was done by an infrared scanner, which watched the line of the horizon ahead and released little spurts of gas to keep the satellite's attitude stable. This complicated operation seems to have worked well. As Discoverer II circled the earth, its directional radio signals kept at a steady level. If Discoverer had not been stabilized properly, they would have fluctuated as the satellite wobbled...
...afternoon came at first singles, where Amherst's highly regarded Tom Richardson outlasted varsity captain Ned Weld, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, in a tough match. Richardson, who had his game under perfect control, constantly hit the corners with beautiful passing shots, and Weld wasn't fast enough to get to them. After a fine start in which he took the first three games, the Crimson captain was a bit off his best game; on several occasions he netted smashes which he might have put away for easy points...