Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sidi Slimane's dining hall, in briefing rooms and sleeping huts, the 6-473' three-man alert crews waited, always a few minutes' jeep ride from their aircraft, always together. ("It's like being married to these guys," says one young copilot, "only worse.") As Klaxon horns blared harshly and insistently through the sun-dried air, the combat crews dropped what they were doing and piled into their jeeps. (One coveralled pilot got notice of the alert when the warning light went on over the Catholic chapel altar, where he was at prayer.) Down premarked roadways...
...smokes or drinks. "I take good care of myself," he insists-a disingenuous way of describing a career that has already cost him two broken collarbones, two broken arms, two broken legs and two broken ankles. Both knees have been sprung so that he has to tape them before riding; one thigh muscle has been pulled so often that it has to be strapped down. "Shucks," says Shoulders, "I've never been hurt seriously. Lots of the boys who've been traipsin' around this suicide circuit have to tie their legs on before they ride...
...accidents, Jim Shoulders has had to do precious little scuffling. Riding the suicide circuit from New York to California, hitting all the dusty little cow towns in between, he has come to know most of the rodeo stock well. Usually he knows which bronc will give him a good, fishtailing ride; which bull will come out of the chute bucking, or which will plunge several feet and then start spinning. Most of the time he knows the safest side for dismounting when the horn sounds the end of the ride...
Schlaeppi has made great improvement in the past few meets and might well provide one of the best Crimson finishes today. But the hopes of the sentimentalists will ride with Reider...
...probably was not launched by the same rocket system that launched the first one. It takes roughly 1,000 Ibs. of fuel to put 1 Ib. of satellite on an orbit. So more than 1,000,000 Ibs. of fuel must have been burned to give Little Curly her ride. The loaded rocket, with its fuel, structure, instrumentation and payload, must have weighed considerably more than 1,000,000 Ibs. To lift it off the ground at reasonable speed must have required a rocket motor (or a cluster of them) with something like 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust...