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...Speed is a Wyeth mania. On a moonless night last week after a dinner party, Andy, barefoot, and his wife Betsy, in an evening dress and sneakers, high-spiritedly tried out a pair of newly bought motorbikes, collided headon. Wyeth broke some foot bones; Betsy was sent to the hospital with a concussion...
...very high-energy experiments, the panel recommends devices called storage rings that will make high-energy protons move in opposite directions and collide headon. The superviolent crack-ups will be few because most of the protons will miss each other, but even one smash may become what the panel yearningly calls "a window on the future." Cost: $60 million...
...Negroes' viewpoint. And it was symbolized by Public Safety Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, who had cowed Negroes for 23 years with hoarse threats and club-swinging cops. It was against Connor's Birmingham that King began secretly recruiting volunteers just before last Christmas. King and Connor clashed headon. The commissioner had his cops-plus a pack of snarling police dogs and a battery of high-pressure fire hoses. The Negro minister had only the determination and courage of his people. He had mobilized schoolchildren for his freedom parades. Hundreds of kids were in jail, and, as last week...
Tackling the mess headon, Dantas, Goulart and Economic Planner Celso Furtado (architect of the ambitious development plan for Brazil's blighted northeast elbow) ended costly subsidies on imports of wheat and petroleum, even though high-test gasoline prices immediately doubled. They raised the fare on Rio commuter trains from 3 mills to 1½?. They limited bank credit, froze steel prices at the government-owned Volta Redonda plant, and persuaded auto, truck and clothing manufacturers to hold the price line. Goulart, who rose to power as labor's pal, even promised a group of industrialists that he would...
...into a low-hanging cloud bank on its way toward a landing at Ankara airport. And then, to his horror. the general saw a Turkish air force C-47 Dakota cargo plane lumber into the same cloud from the opposite direction. In a flash of flame, the two rammed headon, dumping flaming wreckage into the crowds in Ulus Square below. Never in the history of flying has there been such death on the ground from an airborne accident...