Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away from the Ferraris coming out of the turns. With its engine mounted in the rear, the Cooper is a bare 12 ft. long (Ferrari length: 14 ft.. 9 in.). Since there is no long driveshaft, the driver can sit far down in the frame and give the car added stability...
...meters. A bare two hours later, he tackled the marathon distance of 1,500 meters, set a Japanese record of 17:47.5 ("I struggled along trying to overcome weariness by thinking of the food I love"). Next, thrashing home on the last lap with furious half-strokes ("They give me speed but they really wind me"), Yamanaka lopped 2.4 sec. off Konrads' mark (4:19) for the 400 meters. Still full of swimming, he swam on the relay team that broke the 800 meters record of 8:21.6 by 2.9 sec., and finally, last week, Yamanaka capped his performance...
Even more admirable is Actress Carolyn Jones, who is required to deliver most of the old chestnuts ("Put your money where your mouths are"), but manages to give moviegoers one of the funniest, freakiest, most cussedly appealing heroines since Bette Davis, whom she strongly suggests, played the down-South tart in Jezebel...
...crawling man does not usually move as fast as 1 m.p.h., the lowest speed that Tipsy 25 detects, but movements of his arms and legs exceed the speed limit. So they give a characteristic sound and warn the radar sentry that in the darkness somewhere two miles away, someone is crawling who presumably means no good...
...will raise the money to complete payment on the jets by a major refinancing of TWA or by other means. Whatever the choice, Hughes and TWA are in a far stronger position than they were eight months ago, when it looked as if Hughes might be forced to give up control of part of his holdings to raise money. Says Charlie Thomas: "The planes will be financed conventionally and soundly without Hughes's losing any significant control...