Word: sled
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Lifetime Pain. The Michigan team based its findings on tests with a special sled, ten typical snowmobile seats and a 225-lb. dummy fitted with stress-sensing instruments. When the sled with its seated dummy was dropped 4 ft. onto a concrete platform-the equivalent of a jump in a fast-moving snowmobile-the jolts produced downward forces of 20 to 34 times the force of gravity, enough to make the body weigh anything from 4,500 lbs. to 7,650 lbs. at the instant of impact. Aircraft ejection seats, which are activated by an explosive charge, subject the body...
...laughed. "I really enjoy the winters-we have a sled run that goes from up there" [he pointed up the slope] "down to the gate. I really banged myself up one time last year, riding my son down on a sled. It's great...
Division, was sharing a motel room with SLED Chief Strom...
...Mass. Mac-Millan's first voyage to the Arctic was with Robert E. Peary on his historic discovery of the North Pole in 1908-09, and the experience so moved MacMillan that he returned 29 times over the next half-century. He crisscrossed the polar region by dog sled, snowmobile and airplane, and sailed into the ice aboard his sturdy schooner Bowdoin. All the while, he made vast contributions to the world's knowledge of Eskimos, glacial movements, polar flora and fauna, and the geography of the Canadian Arctic archipelago. He was 80 before he finally retired...
Died. Stanley Benham, 56, U.S. bobsledder who won world renown in one of the swiftest and most dangerous of winter sports; of a heart attack; in Miami. Benham represented the U.S. in international competition for 13 years, winning world championships in a four-man sled in 1949 and 1950, and silver medals for the two-and four-man events at the 1952 Olympics...