Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then begins a long slide down to that part of Davy Jones's locker reserved for murkily motivated seagoing films. The arrival of some American prisoners, including the film's one girl, just weighs the boat down more. There is a lot of whispering and barking orders and dashing around the deck. But the trilling wire of suspense is missing. Zo, zometimes, iss Prando's peautiful aczent...
...long, runs up steep country roads, contains no fewer than 15 curves, and its straightaways are no longer than 200 yds. Yet the cars average 69 m.p.h., occasionally even top 125 m.p.h. Most drivers try to "straighten the curves" by skidding around the corner in a controlled four-wheel slide and then snapping the car into a lightning-like acceleration. Says British Driver Tony Marsh: "You have no chance of winning unless you go absolute flat-out-so that means you are on the ragged edge of losing control of the car all the way up the hill...
...Government has committed itself to keep them climbing either by increasing federal spending or cutting taxes. Said Budget Director Charles L. Schultze to a congressional committee investigating tax policy last week: "We can't prevent every little wiggle in the economic cycle, but we can prevent a major slide...
...describing his space experience, "You just go up, fly around, do your job, and come down." It's like flying an airplane, but "you're much more dependent on your physical senses," he summarizes. The closest he ever came to rhapsodizing Friday was while showing a breathtaking color slide of an astronaut's-eye view of the earth. Said he, "It's nice to look at this thing in between your chores...
...adopt radical approaches to surmount the speed limits of conventional land transport. On a test track near Nagoya, he has built a miniature model of his "sonic gliding vehicle," which looks like a needle-nosed submarine. His idea calls for a 627-ft., jet-powered shell that would slide along the tops of vertical columns spaced 300 ft. apart; it would carry 1,000 passengers from city to city at speeds close to that of sound...