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When Stanley Sayres drove his platter-like hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV to a world record over a mile straightaway earlier this month (TIME, July 10), veteran motorboatmen were dazzled by the 160 m.p.h. speed, but they took a restrained view of what the delicate Duralumin craft might do in racing competition. Over the bending Detroit River course of the Gold Cup race last week, Slo-Mo-Shun IV proved she was all right at that...
Wild Bill Cantrell in My Sweetie and Bandleader Guy Lombardo in Tempo VI. Jones had it all worked out. On the straightaways, Slo-Mo-Shun skimmed along with its 1,500-h.p. Allison engine wide open, leaving a spectacular rooster-tail wake that shot 30 ft. into the air. On the turns, to save damage to his boat's lightweight hull, Driver Jones slowed down like a Sunday excursionist...
...m.p.h., while four of the eight starters were being forced out with mechanical trouble under the punishing pace. My Sweetie and Tempo VI were among the survivors, and in the second heat My Sweetie forged into a long lead. Then its engine caught fire, and Slo-Mo-Shun again rocketed home first, with an average of 80.9 m.p.h...
...Your article "Fighting Doctor" [TIME, March 20] pointedly intimates that I was blocking the reforms sponsored by the Hoover Commission . . . I have always stood for progress and change which is constructive. I do not shun being critical if thereby I am constructive. The record of the Hoover Commission is monumentally constructive in the main and has been a Herculean accomplishment, but it has not been a work in which there is universal agreement for every task-force report or which is supported item by item by its members themselves. If a member of the Commission or any other citizen cannot...
...drawn for the new catalogue, have found termite species in every area of the world except the Arctic and Antarctic. The study of termites is something of a challenge, even to such a determined student as Snyder. The trouble is, most termites are blind and soft-bodied, shun light, and always conceal themselves in the earth, wood, or any other of the more than 150 different objects (ranging from toy blocks to Egyptian mummies) in which they have been discovered. Termites are fond of wood because their digestive tracts harbor a specific kind of protozoa which enables them to digest...