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...Camaro has not exactly taken off with a Mustang gait, partly because of some shortage, which G.M. is curing with overtime production. Sales in November's first ten days were just under 5,000, or 371% of Mus tang's rate, and Pete Estes' prediction of 100,000 Camaros built by year-end 1966 will probably be a shade high. As for the other Mustang-like new car, Mercury has sold 12,500 Cougars so far, and supplies are so short that any Cougars in dealers' hands are practically nailed to the floor. Almost the entire...
Students sometimes achieve the professors' measured gait. Their motion is not produced by serene detachment but rather by sheer terror. Generally it takes about two hour exams and a paper before a young student forgets himself enough to descend that...
...irrepressibly energetic man whose normal gait is a gallop, Javits has been a Senator for nearly ten years. Thus, though that exalted station might once have seemed impossibly remote for a poor boy born in what Javits fondly describes as "the urban counterpart to a log cabin?a janitor's flat in a tenement," its ambit today seems too confining for his vaulting talents and ambitions. Having never previously stood still in any one place for so long, Javits is pawing the track and sniffing the air in quest of a higher prize?a place on his party...
...crutches. He needed more bone grafts before he could walk with a leg brace and go to work, standing all day at a bench, repairing ignition armatures. With no tendon attachments, he could not bend his ankle, and although he got along for two more years with a gimpy gait, Dr. Byers was not satisfied. Last December he got Larsen back into the hospital, where orthopedists freed three major tendons from masses of scar tissue both above and below the old break, and joined them with steel sutures...
...skinny (5 ft. 9 in., 145 Ibs.) Kiganjo policeman and a purely natural athlete who has had practically no formal instruction. "I have not been coached or trained by anyone since my first appearance on a track," he says, and shows it. He runs with a peculiarly formal, pistonlike gait, rolls his head while he is running (a trait that, experts say, impairs his balance), likes to take the lead at the start of each race and try to hold...