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...From Havana, the plane flies northeast over the Atlantic parallel to the U.S. coastline; roughly opposite Norfolk, Va., it zigs to a course between Greenland and Iceland to a point beyond the North Cape, then zags southward toward Murmansk-its first landfall after Havana. Flying time to Moscow: 13 hr. :55 min. Bucking headwinds in the other direction, the flight takes 18 hours, and even with a refueling stop at Murmansk the planes often reach Havana with a perilously low fuel reserve...
...higher in the sky as the night advanced. After a little guidance trouble, the soaring scope found the planet and focused its concentrated reddish light into a spectrometer that measured infra-red rays, recorded the readings on magnetic tape and transmitted them simultaneously to the ground. After a 12-hr., 700-mile flight, the balloon and telescope landed gently in Tennessee...
...moved their instruments into the splendors of the Herkulessaal, disappeared behind the screen of organ pipes, and played through Bach's Art of the Fugue, the final composition of his life and a showcase of his innermost contemplations on polyphonal theory. Only at the end of their two-hr.-long performance did Wolfgang and his assistants appear to take crisply correct bows, and then they were off on the high road again...
...walked toward Harpers Ferry. Come on, beckoned Bobby, let's run a bit ''just to loosen up." By the 35-mile mark, all four aides had dropped out. but Bobby completed the 50 miles alone in a respectable 17 hr. 50 min. And next morning he rose at 7:30, made it to 9 o'clock mass and then went ice skating with his children...
...same gusto with which they once stuffed telephone booths. In California 400 Marin County high school students set out, and 97 finished-including 16-year-old Diana Congdon, who covets a place among lady discus throwers in the 1964 Olympics and who walked the 50 miles in 13 hr. 29 min., toting an 8-lb. knapsack filled with a diminishing supply of candy, oranges and fresh clothes. In Burlington, N.C., a 58-year-old postman (who rides a motor scooter on his route) walked the 50 miles in 10 hr. 28 min.. boasted he could cut two hours...