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...more for the Pope than for other men will blustery winds die down at will. Time and again the Pope had to clutch desperately at his white zucchetto (skullcap) to keep it from sailing off into the air. During his farewell speech at Kennedy Airport, a stray gust whipped Paul's cloak over his head and face-and for an incongruous, hilarious split second, the spiritual leader of 584 million Roman Catholics looked like nothing so much as a grownup playing peekaboo with the children...
...reports were terrible when he first met the pros in the Cleveland Browns-College All-Star game last Au gust. Read one: "He has trouble catching the ball, and he doesn't have good moves." Read another: "He has 9.1 speed and 12.5 hands." On that basis, the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys might well have wondered whether they had bought a lemon in Bob Hayes - a $100,000 lemon, to be exact...
...NACA work, Kraft is proudest of a system that he and Phillips devised to smooth out flights in rough air. They redesigned an old twin-engine Beechcraft C45 and fitted it with automatic controls that reduced the plane's lift when it was hit by an upward gust, increased it when hit by a down draft. The system worked well, but commercial aircraft builders considered it too heavy and expensive−a decision that still infuriates Kraft. "It makes me madder than hell when I fly and have to bounce around," he complains. "I know...
...Cliff. On the third day, the pilot of a search plane circled over their heads but failed to spot them -three tiny human spiders, inching their way up the mountain. As soon as the plane banked away, clouds swept in. At 3 a.m. it began snowing, and 60-m.p.h. gusts lashed at the climbers, clinging like cocoons to the cliff in their sleeping bags. One gust ripped the tent off Bonatti's head, and tiny slivers of ice, sharp as thumbtacks, dug at his eyes. "I found myself at 13,000 feet in a terrible position," Bonatti said later...
...just can't hold the cameras steady.") Arnie Palmer winced with pain as a cloud of sand from the bunkers blew into his eyes. Tony Lema huddled against his caddy for protection from the pelting rain, and Amateur Robert Hoag was almost blown over backwards by a gust of wind as he addressed his ball for a drive...