Word: pedalers
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...tests in space prove its efficacy, future astronauts will probably spend part of their waking and sleeping hours in the LBNP. And they will work out in it as well. Lockheed already has an exercise-cycle that fits comfortably inside the bag so that astronauts can pedal to get the blood moving more rapidly...
...inch of the track, so that when the car skims along at 150 m.p.h. and the track comes rushing at the spectator's face, he may suffer the illusion that he is right there in the car, and that if he doesn't find that brake pedal pretty damn quick he's never going to make the next corner. And there is one phony but heart-stopping crash in which a racing car leaps off the road surface at better than 100 m.p.h., turns sideways in the air and for one long, insanely impossible instant goes skittering...
...English team, Eusebio meets rather more than his match. No genius in this lot, but the English are drilled and driven by a demonic will to win. So is West Germany, and in the final game of the tournament the two put on an awesome display of pedal operatics. They leap like gin-crazed kangaroos, block like Green Bay Packers, swing their heads like sledge hammers, flip like tumblers and boot the ball 30 yards upfield while standing on their heads in midair. Amazing that at the end of the game, which England wins (4-2) in overtime, the players...
...transmissions, "drive" and "reverse" must be separated by a neutral position between to ensure that cars will not be accidentally shifted into the wrong gear. The forward speed henceforth must also include a "braking effect" at 25 m.p.h. or less when a driver takes his foot off the gas pedal...
...usually works by day under a porch awning or in the evening by lantern light. He teaches by phonetic method, drawing the flowery Hindi characters on a blackboard and showing how they are combined into words. When the course is over, Mrs. Fisher's library workers will pedal into town on bicycles, ringing bells and advertising books for lending...