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...Vladimir Trusenev, who last month set a new discus record of 202 ft. 2½ in. But the U.S.'s Boston will be tough to beat at home. And so will the top U.S. discus thrower, Al Oerter, who was the first man to hurl the discus 200 ft.; at the A.A.U. championships, Oerter got off the best series ever managed by one man in one meet, fell short of Trusenev's record by just ½ in. As Russian Coach Gavril Korobkov said: "It would be no mistake to say that our fourth match with the Amer ican...
...vote. In the autumn chill, Black Sash Chairman Jean Sinclair, a 54-year-old Johannesburg housewife, and her handful of matronly recruits were swathed in overcoats as they lit their symbolic torch of freedom and posted placards reading "Reject the Sabotage Bill." Promptly, young pro-Nationalist hooligans gathered to hurl eggs, water bombs, stones. Once a crowd of 400 rushed the Black Sash ranks...
...came from old Testing Foe Hans Bethe, whose detailed study showred that the Soviet blasts had been badly underrated. That 58-megaton bomb, Bethe reported, actually was a 100-megaton giant tamped down by a casing of lead. The U.S.S.R. could hang this on its biggest operational missile and hurl the full 100 megatons across 3,500 miles to the U.S. The Russians had made great gains in putting a bigger punch into a smaller package (weight-yield ratio), thus could increase either the range or power of existing weapons systems. They had approached perfection in a clean bomb...
Chazen and John L. Chamberlain III in the New England Journal of Medicine, power mowers act exactly like missile launchers. And a dangerous wound may be devilishly hard to find. Rotary mowers have flat cutting blades that spin at 2,400 to 4,000 r.p.m. The swift blades can hurl a stone, a rusty nail or a broken-off piece of the mower itself at a speed of 300 ft. per second. A child in the next yard may not realize what...
Another capable singing actor is Peter Gesell, playing the lead role as Hampton Hurl. Unhappily, he has to carry the burden of much of the dialogue, and his part suffers for it. In the second act, though, he breaks loose from the stale and the hackneyed, and the result is pleasing in at least two songs, "Think Right" and "My Friend...