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...twice the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet. Since such speeds cannot be maintained in the lower atmosphere, the X-15 will be carried to 35,000 ft. by a B-52, will then climb to an altitude of 100 miles. Burning liquid ammonia and liquid oxygen, its motor will develop 50,000 Ibs. of static thrust, and more power (500,000 h.p.) at full speed than the carrier Forrestal...
Bicycles are both silent and deadly, a menace to pedestrians and a terror to drivers, yet they have proven to be one of the most efficient ways for getting around Harvard Square. And the motor scooter, once an object for the adventurous rich, has become quite democratic and, one might say, even common. But both of these vehicles have been snubbed in University policy, or perhaps merely buried beneath the more weighty matter of parking...
...recent statement, University Police chief Matthew Toohy urged bicycle owners to keep their bicycles "out of the area reserved for motor scooters" near Harvard Hall. But such a statement ignores the fact that neither bicycle owners nor scooter drivers have adequate parking facilities near Harvard Hall--or, for that matter, anywhere else...
...Motor Co. and asked to put up a dome to cover an exhibition rotunda in Dearborn. Visitors came, marveled, and soon the world was beating a path to Ducky's door...
Surrey Jitney. A new four-passenger convertible with three wheels was added to its U.S. line by Italy's Lambretta, the motor-scooter maker. Designed as a golf cart, estate jitney or city family's runabout, the "Surrey"' carries two in a front cab, two in a wicker rear seat with fold-back canvas roof. It has a 6-h.p. single-cylinder engine, goes 45 m.p.h., gets 75 miles per gallon. Price...