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...have plenty of speed for U.S. air travelers. Carrying 112 to 140 passengers United's swept-wing DC-8s will cross the U.S. nonstop at altitudes of 30,000 to 40,000 ft., speeds of 550 to 575 m.p.h. Los Angeles to New York will take only 4 hrs. 30 min., Chicago to New York...
...midnight just 9 days, 15 hrs., 5 min. and 10 sec. after clearing the No. 2 buoy in Los Angeles harbor, the Morning Star glided like a ghost ship into a searchlight beam off Diamond Head. Once more she was first to finish; she had trimmed 19 hours off her old record. Said Rheem: "I wouldn't want to try and break that one." Then, as before, he settled back to wait and see who had really...
...same stunt. When they broke silence they were less than 200 miles off Diamond Head, with more than enough of their 98-hour handicap left to take top honors. The times were too close for comfort, but, under the formula, Staghound won her second trans-Pacific victory by six hrs...
...Bell Ringers as carefully as cricket regulations, forbid the use of relays: only one man to a bell, and he must stick to her (bells, to ringers, are always female) without interruption. Under these conditions, the best that, has been done so far is 21,600 changes (time: 12 hrs. 56 min.), rung in 1950 by a Cheshire team, and it was this mark that last week's octet at Loughborough set out to better. †More complicated arrangements have more romantic names, e.g., Grandsire Triples, London Surprise, Woodbine, Kent Treble Bob Major, Canterbury Pleasure...
...drivers were dead. But by the time they wound up the bloodiest Pan-American yet, the racers had also managed to hang up a few less gloomy marks. In the unlimited sports car division, Italy's Umberto Maglioli, driving a Ferrari, set a new race record of 17 hrs. 40 min. 26 sec. In the small sports car division, Germany's Hans Hermann, driving a Porsche, finished in a record 19.32:33. In the U.S. small stock car division, Texan Tommy Drisdale, driving a Dodge, ran the route...