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During the 1960 campaign, President Kennedy repeatedly promised to "get this country moving again." Last week a great many U.S. voters and investors discovered rather belatedly and painfully that the vehicle he had used to implement this movement was a toboggan...
...will paint Coney Island or Central Park-any place full of people. But his favorite subject has always been the nuns and monks of Venice. He paints them riding motorcycles, hurtling down a hill on a toboggan, carrying chickens under their arms, or lazily fishing in a canal (see cut). His colors run to the rich pinks and purples of Venetian palazzi, but his artistic credo is disarmingly simple: "I think art should be personal...
...hulkiness, Sterling Hayden as Ethan, the Yankee farmer, all but invented a cubist style of acting. Caught in a nightmare marriage with a termagant hypochondriac (Clarice Blackburn), he falls in love with her winsome young cousin (Julie Harris). In the end, the lovers decide on suicide-downhill on a toboggan, crashing into a thick-trunked elm. Viewers who had not read Ethan Frome then got one of the most abrupt shocks ever delivered by television: Julie Harris, seen years later as a survivor of the wreck, her voice shrill, her disintegrated mind making her more shrewish than the wife ever...
Hill used his skills as a skier and surgeon in climbing to an area near the top of the mountain after a ski patrol vehicle broke down and caring for the 12 injured children during the descent by toboggan. The youngsters had ignored warnings of dangerous ice in a roped-off area. Ten were hospitalized...
...Space Toboggan. Professor of Aerodynamics Antonio Ferri of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn is a skip man. He believes that a hypervelocity missile should spend only a short time in the heat-generating atmosphere, then soar up to peaceful space to cool off. Ferri's missile designed to follow this skip course (a "damped phugoid" in aerodynamic fancy-talk) is something like a V-nosed toboggan with curled up edges. The bottom and the outer sides of the curls are covered with heat-resisting ceramic, and the "controlled environment space" for a bomb or a crew to ride...