Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ballets Africains is a very professional show; it moves at great speed, and its participants are obviously old troupers. Nevertheless the dancers radiate spontaneity, and they will provide most anybody with a very good time...
Finishing third in the Ryder 440, the Crimson's Larry Repsher demonstrated excellent speed but a small knowledge of indoor racing tactics. Boxed in for most of the race, Repsher went to the outside with 100 yards remaining, passing one man but failing to reach the leaders...
...prisoners were shot, raising the four-week execution total to 264. In Victoria de las Tunas eight more were condemned. Havana rebels will organize six more courts to speed the trial of 1,500 candidates for "revolutionary justice." The rebels indicted Batista and 24 top officers in absentia for "treason, rebellion, sedition, desertion, malfeasance, robbery and fraud." Foreign embassies in Havana were crowded with 74 exiles who still have not got safe-conduct permits to leave the country...
...discovery was made by careful observation of the Vanguard satellite Beta 1958. Last summer Ann Eckels, also of the Theoretical Division, noticed slight peculiarities about Vanguard Beta's orbit. Sometimes it moved a little slower than expected; sometimes it moved faster. Since a satellite's speed reflects the earth's gravitational pull, the changes of pace were interpreted to mean that gravitation varies over broad areas in an unexpected...
FASTEST CIVILIAN JETLINER, the Convair 880, with a rated speed of 615 m.p.h., made its maiden flight over California, will go into airline service in the spring...