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...Pratt-and-Whitney engines are as remarkable as its wings. The two turbojets have intakes six feet in diameter that gulp enormous amounts of the thin air at high altitudes. Lightened by liberal use of titanium, the engines have hollow turbine blades made of porous material. Air or some other gas forced through the pores keeps the blades from softening, despite the fact that fuel is burned at far higher temperatures than can be tolerated by most engines. The higher temperature yields several thousand more pounds of thrust without added cost in fuel...
Penn has a well-balanced attack featuring 6-2 Stan Pawlak, who is averaging 16-9; fiery, sharp-shooting guard Ray Carazo; Jeff Neuman, a smooth back-court man who can dribble the ball between his legs; and John Hellings, a (gulp) 6-3 sophomore center...
...that Sydney Lawford, 7, and her cousin, Maria Shriver, 8, went into business in front of the Palm Beach mansion of Grandfather Joseph P. Kennedy. Shrewd choice of location. The manse fronts on much-traveled North County Road-and their product, cold drinks priced at a nickel a gulp, quickly attracted a large clientele. But shortly the cops stepped in. Peddling without a license? No. Traffic...
...assuage the Gallic gland, French men gulp some 7,000 varieties of patent medicines - notably, Les Petites Pilules Carters Pour Le Foie - as well as treating it to massage, hot baths, compresses, radioactive water, herbs, fasts, purges, exercises, and injections, naturally, of liver. Says an Anglo-Saxon doctor who has practiced for many years in Paris: "I have never examined a Frenchman who did not believe that he had liver trouble." Undoubtedly, the Frenchman's liver takes a worse beating than any other variety on earth, except that of the geese they force-feed for foie gras. The French...
...Indians who make it through childhood live to an average age of 32-without taking a bath, without taking a pill, without sleeping on a real bed. Most are solemn and docile, apparently cowed by their environment, except when there is an excuse for a fiesta and they can gulp caña (a potent, sugar-based liquor). Then, a missionary says, "a young Indian will start dancing with a girl and they will wander off. After a week they will come back to the community and announce they want to get married...