Word: pelicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good shot at the boat's bellowing speed. He opened up his J35 engine, the same model that drives the Air Force's F89 fighter, and Tempo-Alcoa zoomed up to 180 m.p.h. Then he cut the engine. Two miles ahead, a small peninsula called Pelican Point jutted out into the water. The distance seemed safe enough. The boat had earlier slowed from 260 m.p.h. to a stop in less than a mile. But now a sudden breeze stirred sharp ruffles on Pyramid Lake. The chop broke the normal suction grabbing at the hull, turned the water into...
Staudacher crashed into Pelican Point at 150 m.p.h. The boat missed a shelf of rocks by 18 in., rose majestically and hurtled some 150 ft. through the air, came down on a bank of loam and sand that was about the only spot on the peninsula not covered by rocks, skidded nearly into the water on the far side of Pelican Point before stopping...
...climbed lightly out of the cockpit. The sight was nearly too much for old friend and fellow speed-man, Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader, onetime hydroplane driver and half owner of Tempo-Alcoa. "I expected to see crumpled metal and a crumpled body," says Lombardo. Sprinting toward the wreck, down Pelican Point, Lombardo fell heavily on the rocky shore, cut his leg so painfully that he had to be driven back to Reno. Behind the wheel: nerveless Les Staudacher...
Other standouts range from ARP (Museum of Modern Art; $4.50) to VERMEER (Phaidon; $10). Oriental art gets a lion's share of publishers' attention, with 2000 YEARS OF JAPANESE ART (Abrams; $25) and CHINESE PAINTING (Universe; $10) among the handsomest efforts. Pelican Books offers a monumental study, ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY: 1600-1750, for $12.50. Collins has a NEW TESTAMENT (de luxe, $50) exquisitely illustrated with tipped-in reproductions from medieval manuscripts, and Praeger a compendium of ARTISTS' TECHNIQUES ($12.50). New York Graphic provides a large Henry Moore sketchbook of HEADS, FIGURES AND IDEAS...
...Similarities. John M. Allegro (The Dead Sea Scrolls; Pelican; 85?) is a bright young (33) British expert on Semitic languages who worked for a year on the international team of scholars that is piecing together and translating the scroll fragments in Jerusalem. Back at Manchester University (where he now occupies a teaching post in comparative Semitic philology), bearded John Allegro turned his reputation for brightness to one for brashness; he drew a public rebuke from his fellow scholars (TIME, April 2) when he suggested that the New Testament's Jesus Christ may have been modeled on the scrolls...