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...gunned the engine into life. Spurting to 70 m.p.h., it fled down the highway, rounding curves on two wheels. A Secret Service man, who had jumped onto the rear bumper of the car, flung himself across the trunk, and in his anger and frustration pounded it repeatedly with his fist...
Soon the bells at Memorial Church were tolling, and the flag at University Hall was at half-mast. A Student stood on the grass in the Yard, pounding a tree softly with his fist...
...Fist fights...
...robbed!" came the battle cry. A youth hurdled a 3½-ft. fence onto the track, brandished a fist-and hundreds swarmed after him. They attacked the judge's booth at the finish line, injuring John DeMatteo, who was pinned inside. They threw bottles at the infield tote board until the lights that indicate the amount of money bet finally winked out. They pulled a sulky from the paddock and set it afire. Bands of vandals dashed wildly through the stands, breaking windows, lighting bonfires, ripping program booths apart...
...space-conscious laymen, the very word meteoroid is heavy with menace. It conjures up visions of rocklike objects streaking the sky as shooting stars, moving at such enormous speeds that a lump as big as a pea could punch a fist-sized hole through any spacecraft. Scientists, who have calculated the probability that a spacecraft and a meteoroid would collide, are less worried than laymen, but even so, they have planned on protecting long-range space vehicles with meteor bumpers. Now it seems that spacecraft will need no such shields. Space is indeed teeming with meteoroids, but most of them...