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...came the tremendous moment, when the four sprinters vanished into the tunnel for the start of the 220 yards. There was a dreadful pause, a muffled thud, and then--nothing. It was a false start. Another pause, and at last a louder bang. A moment's agony, and then there was Abrahams scudding along like some great bird, with a four yard lead. He went further and further in front, running superbly, to win by seven yards in 21.6." Thus did the Times describe the climax of Abrahams' nearly single-handed win over the visitors...
...trailer reared slowly upward like the body of a dump truck, carrying the X-13 to a vertical position. It was now hanging by an undernose hook from a short length of cable strung between two movable arms at the top of the vertical trailer bed. Its engine roared louder, and slowly the Vertijet rose, standing on an invisible column of hot racing gases. Its hook now free from the cable, it rose higher. Then it curved gracefully into normal, horizontal flying position and roared away out of sight...
Eight to the Bar. In London. Publican Harry Sternshine won permission from the London County Council Public Control Committee to use an amplifier in his pub when he argued eloquently that louder music was required to attract people away from...
...Square development. A $2,000,000 opera house has been projected for Colorado Springs by Architect Jan Ruhtenberg which features sculptural shell concrete forms with adjustable walls that can be thrown wide open to empty a full house (3,000) in 1½ minutes. Abroad the boom resounds even louder, with new structures rising and war-damaged buildings getting a thorough refurbishing...
...household in the world is more subject to the hot breath of gossip than Britain's House of Windsor. Last week the mongering winds were howling louder around Buckingham Palace than they had since the day of Wallis Warfield Simpson and Edward VIII...