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Stephens was 22 when he took a vacation from his drawing board and, with his father and brother Rod as crew members, astounded the blue-water racers by skippering his 52-ft. yawl Dorade to victory in a transatlantic race to England. The experience helped him go on to design deep-keeled, fast cruising yawls with flashy racing lines, such as Baruna and Bolero, and the shallow-keeled, sturdy Finisterre, that came to dominate blue-water racing against schooners and ketches...
...youth-defying British auto racer, first light-car driver (in a souped-up MG) to crack 200 m.p.h., holder at his death of four international records; in Eastbourne, England. "To cut wind resistance, I drive on my stomach," said Goldie Gardner. "A poor chap in an American hot rod has to sit upright-frightfully drafty." Flat out, Gardner, at a youthful 61, set 16 records in one day on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1951, 21 more (in one week) the next year...
...were shackled by a leg to overhead conveyor belts, jabbed in their jugular veins, sometimes dumped alive into scalding water. The societies pressured meat packers into joining a committee on humane slaughter that achieved some innovations, e.g., some packinghouses began using a captive bolt pistol, which fires a metal rod into the brain; George A. Hormel & Co. installed carbon-dioxide rooms where hogs were gassed before slaughter. But most packinghouses continued old methods. Angrily, the humane societies took the issue to Congress, early this year got a bill through the House...
...labor empire. Their plan is brutally simple: sell the café proprietor "protection" from legitimate unionization and collect monthly "dues" from him for a fragment of his staff-a fragment that rarely knows it has been organized. The weapons are terror, extortion and violence, wielded in many cases by rod-packing remnants of the late Al Capone's mob. Items offered in evidence at last week's hearings...
...This is one of the finest suspense double-bills to come along in years. Orson Welles is one of the most imaginative geniuses in the theatrical world today; in Touch, aided by Charlton Heston, he uses his unflagging gifts to produce a masterful film. In Cry, James Mason and Rod Steiger try to outwit each other, with climactic scenes in an elevator shaft and a subway tunnel...