Word: recording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then 27, Donald Campbell was not well prepared to make a fight of it ("I'd never traveled at more than 70 m.p.h. on water, and not much more on land"). But he learned. The U.S.'s Stanley Sayres duly broke Sir Malcolm's record in 1950. but by T955 Donald had it back in the family. In his jet-powered Bluebird II, he roared up and down the course on England's Lake Ullswater at an average speed of 202.32 m.p.h...
Since then, Campbell has held the record unchallenged and upped it every year. But the magic 300-m.p.h. mark on water has become to Campbell what Mount...
...prayed all the time," 38-year-old Don Campbell took Bluebird, slightly modified with stabilizing fin and redesigned rudder, in a foam-washed scud across the smooth surface of Lake Coniston in Lancashire at 275.15 m.p.h., negotiated the return run in 245.55 for an average of 260.35-breaking his record of 248.62 made last year...
...that he will try out this fall. Lombardo professed to be undisturbed by Campbell's latest feat. "We figured when we planned our boat," he said, "that we would have to design it to go 300 m.p.h. I'm confident we'll beat Campbell's record...
...Bible broke its own bestseller record in 1958. At the 143rd annual meeting of the American Bible Society in Manhattan last week, delegates learned that the society distributed 16,629,486 Scriptures last year in the U.S. and abroad. Previous record: 16 million...