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...Forced to cancel his assault on John Cobb's world land-speed 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...
...tennis has been good to Amateur Rod ("The Rocket") Laver: it has lured away everyone who might make the nimble Australian redhead work up a sweat on the courts. For years. Lefthander Laver, 23, labored as a B-team scrub on the great Down Under squads that dominated amateur tennis, taking his lumps regularly from such talented first-stringers as Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall and Ashley Cooper. Even after the varsity turned pro, Laver could not seem to win the big ones: he lost twice in the finals at Wimbledon, twice more at Forest Hills. But this year The Rocket...
Short (5 ft. 8 in.) and bowlegged. Rod Laver is not in the same bracket with Don Budge. The son of a Queensland sheepherder, he is temperamental, easily thrown off stride by the bad breaks of a match. He lacks the cannonlike power of a Hoad or the dexterity of a Rosewall. Instead, he relies on craftiness and a unique ability to reset his wrist in mid-stroke-just before contact with the ball -that permits him to hit the ball flat, give it top spin, or impart a low-bouncing underspin. At Wimbledon last week, everything worked...
Single Stitches. Lying on the operating table beside its owner, the arm was still attached only by suture threads. To fix it firmly, an orthopedic surgeon drove a stainless-steel rod into the broken upper end of the humerus, through its squishy marrow center, until the end of the rod projected into the shoulder. He fitted the broken bone ends together, pushing the rod down into the marrow of the undamaged lower bone. If new bone grows well enough to make a solid union, the rod may later be withdrawn; otherwise it will be left in place...
...scarcity of steel the obstacles to importing wood in the late 'thirties led him to very of prefabrication for Italian hangars he built in 1939. When Germans destroyed the hangars at of the war, they demonstrated strength of the interlocking elements, rubble revealed that not a single a steel-rod joints had been broken...