Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nadine Duwez handled the title role with considerable skill. The Creon of Elias Kulukundis '60 was a bit awkward. Earle Edgerton '56 directed, and others in the cast included Debbie Gayle, Mary Cass, Herb Propper, Sidney Davis, William Batchelder '59, Robert Hesse '59, and Nicholas Thompson '60.22"No Exit": MARY CASS and EARLE EDGERTON...
...Thompson, "the most important factor in automobile speed is aerodynamics." His streamliner was as slippery as loving work could make it. The entire car, including wheels, was enclosed by a curved aluminum shield. "If your aerodynamics aren't good," said Thompson, "your car will take off on you and fly. This car is the fastest...
...Nudging 286.9 rn.p.h. on a trial run, Thompson whistled back and forth across the measured mile for an average speed of 266.866 m.p.h., a record for a U.S. driver and a U.S.-built...
...addiction." On the last day of the trials, Thompson crawled into his car, which stands only 32 in high, settled himself in the driver's seat, got a push from a truck until his engines thundered to life at 45 m.p.h., and set out for glory. Astonished timers caught his blurred passage on the first pass through the traps at 294,117. A new record seemed certain. But on the return trip, when Thompson got up to 280 m.p.h., three connecting rods on the front engine suddenly snapped under the strain, punched a hole in the engine block. Thompson...
Three bullets snapped through the sultry Cyprus air. Dead on the pavement lay Police Superintendent Donald Murray Thompson, a crumpled symbol of the decision last week by the rebel EOKA to end its jittery truce with the British military government. Next day, on the streets of ancient, walled Nicosia (pop. 60,000), the only unarmed Britons abroad were those who had to be: reporters for the jaunty Times of Cyprus (circ...