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...manned Mercury capsules, having 430,000 Ibs. of thrust at takeoff instead of 360,000, and 100,000 Ibs. of thrust in its second stage. The dummy Gemini capsule, weighted with ballast and instruments, was more than twice as heavy (6,950 Ibs.) as a manned Mercury capsule, though lighter than the 8,200-lb. warhead that the Titan II normally carries on a ballistic flight...
...padded to feel soft and shows the ends of real cigarettes to reassure a suspicious businessman or divorce-prone spouse-provided he doesn't ask for a smoke. Bertsche believes that bugs in time may be no bigger than a pencil eraser, recorders as small as a cigarette lighter...
...mile course was part road, part track; in the infield, it snaked through a series of sharp hairpin turns; then it swept onto Daytona's ultrafast, banked stock-car oval. In the lighter, more maneuverable Lotus, Gurney picked up valuable seconds on the turns; Foyt got the seconds back by blasting around the oval flat-out at nearly 185 m.p.h. By the 20th lap, both had lapped the entire field. But neither one could shake the other. Sixteen times in the first 38 laps the lead changed hands, while both drivers nursed their cars carefully, hoping for a break...
...tried raising the roof, but that made the car appear top heavy. The next step was to raise the roof over only the second and third seats. This was better, but still not quite right. Then, inspiration! How about glassing in part of the raised roof section for a lighter and airier effect? Thus was the vista dome born...
Pickett will probably have to concede these three stars their points--though it will be interesting to see how Harvard's slick sophomore Howard Durfee does against Lansky. Tack chace is lighter than Jacobsohn, but should give him a match, while King, who has to face Sofman, is a fast-improving wrestler...