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...Goldmarks, former U.S. Senator Harry Cain (Rep., Wash.), who had served three years on the Subversive Activities Control Board, testified that the A.C.L.U. has never been a Communist front. And in a lighter moment, Actor Sterling Hayden, in full beard, testified that leaving the Communist Party is easy (he himself left in 1946 after six months) and the discipline only as tough as one makes it: "I was the only person I know to buy a yacht and join the party in the same week...
...Harvard captain had hoped that the 1964 squash ball, lighter than the one which has been in use previously, would give him an edge against Salaun, who wasn't supposed to have the necessary strength to keep the light ball deep in the court. It didn't work out that...
...infinitely lighter, built with fewer materials, and therefore far more cheaply. If mass-produced, such houses could solve the world's shelter problems...
Every other finalist at last week's championships used a "gun"-a long, heavy (up to 40 Ibs.) board designed for stability in big waves like Makaha's. Cabell preferred a shorter, lighter (25 Ibs.) foam-and-fiber-glass "natural," designed for easy maneuverability and ordinarily used in smaller waves. Each surfer got seven tries. Cabell rode four of his waves almost half a mile clear in to the beach, catching each looming 25-footer off Makaha's northwestern tip, standing up for 300 yds., dropping prone as it dissolved to foam crossing a reef, then rising...
Blowing Whale. The heavy lower point, Adams explains, will be attached in such a way that the pressure or temperature at a predetermined depth will release it. Freed from this ballast, the needle will be lighter than molten rock, and it will float instead of sinking. At last it will surface like a blowing whale, bringing with it samples of deep-down lava that have forced their way into depressions in its shell...