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...BANTA Geyser, Mont...
...minute intervals, the other racers skimmed and skidded down the mountain. One man lost his balance, tripped and rolled over, sending up a geyser of snow. He got up and went on. Dartmouth's Bill Beck, the 22-year-old who placed fifth for the U.S. in the Olympic downhill race, whistled down, his skis chattering like Tommy guns on the bumpy ice. Brooks Dodge, also a Dartmouth man and Beck's Olympic teammate, loomed out of the fog at terrific speed, frantically clawing at his misted goggles. One skier blindly pounded on to the flat before...
Back for the final heat, he gave 250,000 spectators a thrill by whipping so narrowly past the observation barge that newsmen aboard could count the stitches on his lifebelt. Then, 300 yards past the barge, Quicksilver began the turn. Suddenly the big hydroplane flipped over, vanished in a geyser of white spray. When the mist settled, only flotsam remained-a few splinters of grey plywood, a seat cushion, one shoe with a sock still inside...
Such a steamy geyser blew off last week when Mrs. Elizabeth E. Malament, a Brooklyn social-studies teacher, inveighed against a recent U.S. history exam set by the State Board of Regents. Wrote Mrs. Malament: "Does [the exam] measure the significant and enduring values that we strive to develop in our pupils? Will it help teachers by directing their emphasis into the most meaningful channels?" Mrs. Malament thought...
Cheer from Coffins. Conscientious Objector Fry was assigned to a Pioneer Corps outfit cleaning up rubble all over bombed Britain. He converted his tough sergeant to Shakespeare and occasionally awed him, when he gave what Fry considered unreasonable orders, with a geyser of Falstaffian curses. After war's end, his Phoenix ran for 64 performances in London's West End. Wrote one critic: "Mr. Fry could make a ghoul laugh ... He gets more cheerfulness out of coffins than most people would from the abolition of bread rationing...