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...35th, as he approached St. Mary's Corner-a difficult right-and-left jog in the road-the limit was passed. Said Moss, before the race: "With luck, you can take St. Mary's at 90 m.p.h." Recalled Graham Hill, afterward: "As we went into St. Mary's, Stirling was coming up on me at about 110 m.p.h. on the outside. In the mirror I saw him coming up fast, and then he just kept going straight." Moss's Lotus hurtled across 150 yds. of grass, plowed head on into an 8-ft.-high embankment, spun...
...educators' conclave and requested to bring along his most formative teacher, Bunche chose Miss Sweet, now a spry 82. Diplomatically, Miss Sweet chose to "forget" the reason why she gave Ralph only a C+ in deportment, but the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner quickly chimed in to jog her memory. "I've always been rather warlike," he said. "Spitballs were my weapons-and a wagging tongue...
Though it may help jog memories, the changeover in the base period should not, the government promises, make any difference in the percentage fluctuations shown by the indices from year to year. Thus, the rise in the Consumer Price Index from 1950 to 1960 is 23%, regardless of which base period is used. But the new base will mean a dramatic drop in the apparent level of many indicators, e.g., the Consumer Price Index for November would be 104.6 calculated on the new base v. 128.3 on tne 1947-49 base...
...tick-tock pieces, but nobody ever gave them a syncopated twist before"). Anderson, 53, writes what he calls "concert music with a pop quality"-compositions that rely heavily on acoustical effects and rarely run longer than three minutes. Most popular Anderson concert piece last season was Sleigh Ride, a jog-trotting exercise complete with sleigh bells (jingled by a percussionist) the crack of a whip (two hinged pieces of wood slapped together) and the sound of a whinnying horse (a trumpet with valves half closed...
...Gulls at rest, hardly a ripple. Suddenly, about 50 yards offshore, something breaks water. A fish? A submarine? No, just a wardrobe closet -large, well-made, decorated with a mirror, and carried by two dripping workingmen. Matter-of-factly, they lug the closet to the beach, jog the water out of their ears, pick the closet up again and head for the nearest city...