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Russia's Valery Brumel danced a little jig to loosen his leg muscles. He lifted his left hand in a crisp salute-a signal that he was ready. Suddenly he was galloping violently toward the pit. His left foot slammed into the ground and his body hurtled upward-left arm tucked against his chest, right leg thrust high. He barely grazed the crossbar; then he was clear and falling, the bar quivering behind him. The jump measured 7 ft. 5 in., a new world's record. And as Brumel bounced joyfully from the sawdust pit, 81,000 people...
...record (394.196 m.p.h.) when officials at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats ruled the surface too dangerously rough for his 3,200-h.p. super-hot-rod Challenger I, California's Mickey Thompson turned up instead in a 1962 Pontiac, smashed 50 U.S. stock-car records-despite a blundering pit crew that set the engine afire by spilling oil on it and then proceeded to spray Thompson in the face with gasoline. Over one kilometer from a flying start, the Pontiac was clocked at 153.64 m.p.h., and it averaged 143.12 m.p.h. through a three-hour endurance...
...when, as he said, "actors like Kirk Douglas started producing movies." Once, on a movie set, he scolded a submissive assistant with a memorable command: "Don't say yes until I'm finished talking." He also made some memorable pictures-Gentleman's Agreement, The Snake Pit, All About Eve, Viva Zapata...
Sweeping the area, the Rangers destroyed two Viet Cong mantraps-camouflaged pits filled with barbed steel spikes. One pit was designed as an inverted cone so that if a leg were thrust into the trap, it would be impossible to pull it up again through the downward-pointing spikes. Rangers warned the U.S. observers examining the pits to avoid the barbs, which are usually covered with human excrement, or stronger poisons if available...
...second difficulty can be complained of little: the small orchestra necessitated by a theatre-in-the-round can hardly hope to cope with the Fledermaus overture, one of the treasures of light musical literature. All in all, Rudolph Bennet handles his small forces in the pit with considerable skill. The acoustics are good in the South Shore tent, and the voices were audible...