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...secret of his success is his technique. Instead of jackknifing from the waist as most U.S. skiers do, young Gene adopted the Finnish jumping style of leaning forward from the ankles, found that it cut down wind resistance, gave more horizontal thrust for longer jumps. Fortnight ago in the North American championships at Squaw Valley, Calif., he came within 3.3 points of beating Finland's Kalevi Karkinen. one of the world's best. "We were all amazed," said Norway's top expert, Sigmund Ruud, after watching Kotlarek at the Holmenkollen. "The U.S. has never had a more...
...this technique involves an ever-increasing awareness of subjectivity in approaching academic problems. This is paralleled and reinforced by the Eastern tendency to evaluate people in psychological and economic terms, with less emphasis on appearance and immediate impressions. The underlying tone of circumspection and distrust, intensified by the double thrust of college and community, can but impose an extreme self-consciousness on the student. This creates a kind of intellectual narcissism, as well as a false identification of self-consciousness with self-knowledge that produces the familar know-it-all pose for which Harvard is so famous...
...Stock issued at $1 per share in 1956 was selling around $25 per share last week. To boost earnings this year, Bob Rod is counting on new ideas. Among them: an ultrasonic whistle that will increase or decrease the rate at which solid fuel in missiles burns, control its thrust. (Sound waves shot through a material accelerate many chemical reactions, including combustion...
...Centaur's second stage will burn hydrogen, whose high energy, according to NASA's Dr. Abe Silverstein, "will greatly increase our capability to send a mission to Mars and Venus." ¶ Most advanced project in the works: a five-stage job with a 6,000,000-lb. thrust first stage, which will be capable of carrying a man to the moon and bringing him back. In combination with a nuclear-powered upper-stage rocket, it should take 55,000 Ibs. to Mars...
Dermot McNamara plays him as a foolish fellow indeed, pleased but generally unable to cope with the greatness so suddenly thrust upon him. In the process he becomes even more bedraggled and gormless than the natives, and makes it incredible that anyone, much less a bright scornful girl like Pegeen Mike, could call him a lad with "a mighty spirit in him and a gamey heart...