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...example, the four-minute mile. For years, we thought that was a physical limit just a bit beyond human reach. Well, it was a psychological limit, and once there was a breakthrough the barrier seemed never to have existed. So it was with the sound barrier-with man enduring Mach 1*- a falsely set limit...
...tiny (400 workers) Leduc Co. has built an even more radical fighter with a needlelike plastic cockpit and a 143,000-lb.-thrust (at 621 m.p.h.) ramjet engine. Carried aloft on the back of a mother ship and released at a high speed, the Leduc ramjet has already passed Mach 1 in a climb, is expected to hit Mach 2 (1,520 m.p.h. at sea level...
Compared to the papier-maché heroes of most Hollywood westerns, Davy Crockett is filled with engaging human imperfections : he loses his first hand-to-hand battle with the Indian chief, Red Stick, and only succeeds in overcoming villainous Mike Mazurki by biting his opponent's thumb. There are some stereotypes-Buddy Ebsen has the familiar role of the trusty pal, and Hans Conreid plays a cowardly gambler with synthetic W. C. Fields flourishes. But, all in all, Davy makes his giant-sized legend come as truly alive as that of Mike Fink, the river boatman, or Paul Bunyan...
...diesel locomotive. One big hall was filled with several dozen kinds of motor scooters and motorcycles; other halls displayed delicate glassware and pottery, tractors, sail-and motorboats, house trailers. The Montecatini chemical company showed off its insecticides, fertilizers and aluminum products in an elaborate pavilion decorated with immense papier-machéå insects and lacy scaffoldings festooned with sunbursts of aluminum chairs and kitchen utensils
...present class representatives are among the eight candidates in the junior class election. They are Newell Mach of Adams, present Council treasurer, and Bred Stark of Dunster. Opening them will be Charles Boston of Dunster, Dick Dedds of Kirkland, Calvin Gross of Lowell, Broce G. Mertin of Dunster, Edward M. Streaser of Kirkland and Kenneth G. Swan of Kirkland...