Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Buckingham Palace moved with the speed of light to scotch rumors that the Duke of Edinburgh might invite Adamski around to see his Queen: "The royal family has decided that it cannot entertain Mr. Adamski or his ideas...
Slicks & Gusts. But the 500 is no joy ride. One slip, one tiny miscalculation, a sudden gust of wind, an oil slick on the track-any of these, at high speed, can bring death; the track's pavement and rails are covered with skid marks and paint scratches left by skidding, hurtling cars. In 50 years of racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 50 people have died...
...winning car at Indianapolis is the one that combines top speed with a minimum time in the pits-a good pit crew can refuel and change all four tires in 30 seconds. For the past two years the winner has been the bright yellow, 380-h.p. Belond Special, designed, built and owned by Mechanic George Salih of Whittier, Calif. Salih took the standard four-cylinder Offenhauser engine used in most Indianapolis cars, installed it on its side at an 18° angle for cooler running and lower center of gravity. The idea was so successful that...
...done, as usual, a pretty slick job as a straight-face comic, and he would have done a better job-along with Actor Douglas and Actress Reynolds-if Director George Marshall had not decided to play The Mating Game at a speed less suitable to a romantic comedy than to a board of chess...
...Faced with a Greek society already in decline, Plato equated any change with decay. For philosophic reasons, he decided that the sphere was the only perfect shape, that the world must be a perfect sphere and that the motion of heavenly bodies must be in perfect circles at uniform speed. Aristotle returned to the idea of an immobile earth and placed it in the center of nine concentric, transparent spheres, outside which was the Unmoved Mover who kept the whole machinery turning. To make the heavens jibe with Aristotle, the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy, in the 2nd century A.D., posited...