Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speed Gets 'Em. Western specialists on Chinese affairs regard Communist statistics about their great leap forward as blatantly inflated. But instead of modifying them, the Communists multiplied them last week, making vast progress by statistical exhortation. Blandly, Chou En-lai advanced the claim that Red China's industrial and agricultural output increased by 65% in 1958-"a speed which has never been attained and cannot be attained under the capitalist system." No less fantastic were the production targets announced for this year: 18 million tons of steel (up 54% over 1958), 380 million tons of coal...
Flying as a passenger in a T-33 jet over Colorado, Air Force Colonel John Paul Stapp, rocket-sledding holder of the world land speed record (632 m.p.h.), found himself in a jam when the plane's engine flamed out. No slouch in an emergency, Stapp ejected himself at "somewhere between 8,000 and 10,000 feet," back-somersaulted four times, then opened his chute to float to earth. His only memorable injury: a chipped ankle bone. His pilot, Captain Harry B. Davis, a Negro fighter-pilot veteran of the Korean war, was not so lucky, died after...
Coach Laury Coolidge continues to experiment with his crews despite their fine records so far, in an effort to gain the greatest possible speed from his men. This week Henley veteran Mike Christian moved into the varsity at the three seat in place of Irving Destler and Roy Gosse went into the J.V. shell for C. Michael...
...that the crew continue to progress and not sit back this week, for the race next weekend with Pennsylvania will certainly demand the maximum effort possible. Main emphasis, therefore, has been on increasing the strength of the shell. "The big thing now, once we have attained the rate of speed and striking for racing, is to toughen up as the weeks go by," Love said...
...various sections; but as each part went on, the chorus, depressed by a rather cowardly soprano section, sank lower and lower, and at the end of the second movement was grovelling around a third lower than was written, producing the weird impression of a record being played one speed too slowly...