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Even more amazing adventures can occur-like losing your way. Tubers often float too far downstream or take the wrong fork. Early this summer two women chatted away so feverishly they did not notice that the river had slowed to a swamp. Startled by the sound of cows grazing on the riverbank a few feet away, they scrambled ashore, only to find their path blocked by a gun-toting farmer...
...sometimes hits a peak of 120 p.p.m. "It is most exciting," says Haagen-Smit. "You get behind another car, and the pointer goes way up, especially where you have a slowdown of traffic." Top readings come at the nightmarish interchanges, where curling roadways tangle like spaghetti on a fork and hundreds of car engines pant in frustration. "Tunnels and depressions concentrate the carbon monoxide," says the professor, "but in that interchange area it's really stinking...
...plane drops down to 450 ft., zeroing in on the nylon line. A V-shaped fork, attached to the plane's nose, guides the line into a locking device. Although the plane is moving at 150 m.p.h., the man being rescued is lifted with less of a jolt than the force of a 6-ft. jump. The man goes up almost vertically before he begins tracing a curved path into a position somewhat below and to the rear of the plane. The relative gentleness of the takeoff and the curved trajectory result from the interaction of several forces...
...Keating is a familiar figure there, and one sign that greeted him read: KEATING AND ISRAEL go TOGETHER LIKE BAGELS AND LOX. In that same district, Bobby spurned the ethnic diet, chose melon, split-pea soup and chocolate milk. In lower Manhattan's "Little Italy," he asked for a fork when someone offered him a slice of pizza. "You don't need a fork," he was gently advised...
...minor infractions (unshined shoes, using the wrong fork), Cap'n Hop's punishment may be a fine. But for big ones, it's often off to Coventry: Ken Rosewall, who played on four Aussie Davis Cup teams, says that Harry has not even said hello to him since he turned...