Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slip-Stick Specialist. Fangio's swift, shovel-nosed, 34-liter Ferrari had all the power and acceleration a skillful driver needs, but its conventional drum-and-shoe brakes were not designed for that demanding course. The best of Fangio's competitors had cars that seemed better fitted. Former...
¶ Chance Vought's F8U Crusader and Grumman's F11F Tiger, the Navy's newest jets. Both are relatively light, have sharply swept wings and needle-nosed fuselages. The F8U is powered by a Pratt & Whitney J-57, the F11F by a Curtiss-Wright J-65. Speed...
Redstone. The Army's most ambitious weapon is the Redstone, a surface-to-surface ballistic rocket designed at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala., with the help of 120 German V-2 experts. Led by Wernher von Braun, they have given their new country the biggest rocket that has actually been...
MILWAUKEE'S SCHLITZ is again the No. 1 U.S. beer, after having been nosed out by St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser) in 1953 and 1954. The 1955 sales totals: 5,780,000 bbls. for Schlitz, close to 100,000 bbl. more than Anheuser-Busch.
Taunting Xavier and his faith, Mirbel agrees to go back to his wife if Xavier will forget about his seminary obligations and come with him. The dark, wind-blown mansion to which Xavier is taken is a spiritual isolation ward rife with viciousness. There is an ugly, snot-nosed, unwanted...