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...circulation of people resumes. Uncle constantly circumnavigates the hall. He is a small, squat man who appears to be literally easier to flatten than knock over. He advances like a boxer, stopping before the more loud-mouthed, hence less important, kids to draw back his fist and flex his forearm. Violence diffuses through the room like the smoke, and it is easy to forget that the friendly shoves are shoves. Then maybe a drunk comes in. Vic says to the stranger, "Go now. That kid in blue is drunk. He's crazy when he's drunk." The drunk manages...
...that the pioneering jetliners have reached middle age. The first 707s went into service back in 1958, and some of the earliest have since logged more than 250,000 flight hours. The hairline cracks are caused by metal fatigue that commonly develops in high-time aircraft at points where flex and strain occur; even in the DC-6, one of the sturdiest planes ever built, fissures were discovered in a number of wing spars in 1960. To date, said the FAA, no aviation accident of any kind has been attributed to such defects...
...Danish newcomer is Niels Kehlet, 27. Though he is the shortest (5 ft. 7 in.) of the male soloists, he is a man to look up to. With a flex of his coiled-spring legs, he can probably leap higher than anyone else anywhere in the world. But he has a high distaste for fame as a human jack-in-the-box. "Jumping is not an end in itself," Kehlet explains. "How you get up there and how you get back is not important. It's what you do when you're up there that counts." What...
After seven months, the wounded seaman could walk for several hours, flex his toes, feel pain and temperature changes, climb stairs, stoop down, and even kick a soccer ball. The stiffness of his fused ankle seems the only irreparable aftermath of his accident...
Mann scored his breakthrough when he discovered that the gentle flute, an upstaged squeak in the company of flashy trumpets and saxophones, could best flex its personality against a background of drums. Mann formed an Afro-Jazz Sextet and embarked in 1959 on a highly successful four-month tour of 17 African countries...