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...Germany's towering Zugspitze, champion bobsledders of eight nations were in gleeful spirits last week. After two days of unseasonably mild weather, the icy 1936 Olympic bobsled course had frozen hard and fast over its tortuous, 1,800-yard length. Switzerland's Felix Endrich, clumping around the take-off point, had particular reason to be happy: he had won the world championship two-man bobsled title earlier in the week, and his bride of less than a month was sitting in the stands rooting for him to repeat in the four-man event. Happily hailing U.S. Bobsledder Lloyd...
...sleek new fighter with no flotation gear at all. In takeoffs, the fighter moves out from shallow water, its ski sliding along the bottom. As soon as it picks up speed and the ski cuts to the surface, the plane can skim over deep water for its take-off run. Once in the air, the hydro-ski can be retracted. After touching down, the pilot has to taxi fast enough for his plane to stay on the surface until he is close to beach or landing ramp...
Standing on the road near one end of San Salvador's Ilopango Airport one afternoon last week, Felix Lara, 24, an Indian laborer, watched a Pan American Airways Constellation taxi out for the take-off to Honduras. Just as the plane started to roll, Felix vaulted the airport fence, leaped up on the axle housing of the right main landing wheel, and flung his arms around the fat supporting strut...
...Five very unruly children. 73. Tongue-in-cheek, Buccaneer Burt Lancaster roams the Mediterranean in this take-off on pirate movies...
...event of the Eisenhower week was his reunion with Bob Taft in New York. There were three lesser but notable events: Ike's hardest-hitting speech thus far in the campaign, his hardest-to-swallow act of political expediency, and his take-off for what may be his most grueling swing around the hustings...