Word: pedals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pedal Away. Eagle-faced Dr. Bruno Balke, 51, who began his love affair with mountains while a surgeon with Hitler's Alpine troops, first led his team (one other doctor, five enlisted men) to Fairplay, Colo. (10,000 ft.), for hikes of up to three hours. Then he moved up 1.500 ft. to Hoosier Pass and laid on more hikes, extending eventually to ten hours (15 miles), plus intensive series of knee bends and sprints up steep slopes. By easy stages the team advanced to Evans...
...manual and pedal dexterity, however, is admirable. Except for the final number on Thursday's program, he played with great accuracy: there were fewer than a dozen slips of finger or toe--an unusually high batting average for an organ recital. Biggs chose to end with the celebrated Bach Toccata and Fugue in D-minor, which he has played thousands of times. Evidently he thought he knew it so well that it needed no advance brushing-up. The result was, to put it bluntly, a mess...
...Pedal Pusher. In Florissant, Mo., stopped by police in a 30-mile zone, George E. Van Meter got a summons for doing 42 m.p.h. on his bicycle...
...never try hard," said Vag as he released the clutch. He kept his gas pedal floored as he whirled his way from first to second and then to third gear. At the peak of the hill he downshifted and screeched into the first turn into the circle. Through the turn he went into third and then, entering the far turn, he downshifted again, waved to a photographer, smiled at the girl who waved the green flag, and screeched off. A few moments later he stepped out of the car and heard his time announced on the public address system...
...must be assumed that it will fail, and it must be designed so that its failure will do minimal or no harm. Fail Safe on U.S. railroads, for example, means "the dead man's throttle." If an engineer dies at the controls, his pressure on a foot pedal or hand lever is released, and the train automatically goes into an emergency stop. Fail Safe at SAC means that SAC bomber crews, launched in an alert, do not proceed toward their preassigned target beyond a preassigned coordinate point without a coded follow-up command. Only beyond the Fail Safe point...