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...Britain's pace-setting Mike Blagrove led the field into the first lap on the dead sprint. In third place was Ibbotson, his chest stuck out like a bantam cock's, his legs and arms weaving perfect circles, running like a mechanical toy. The time for the first quarter-mile: 0:55.3, just 9.5 sec. slower than the world record. "When I heard that time," said Ibbotson later, "I felt sick." At the half-mile mark. the time was a phenomenal 1:55.8. Then Blagrove faded. When the bell clanged at the start of the final quarter-mile...
...room hotel, about 90 minutes drive from Pittsburgh, seemed an ideal solution. The society paid $150,000 for it, plans to use part of the building to set up a toy factory like the one at Rifton. "Here we will have room to work and worship, and educate the children," says Arnold. "We will be able to go out among people, and also to welcome those who are interested in our way of living according to Christ's teachings and example. We want to be a part of people, not apart from them...
...look. Its nose was a sharp metal spike, and the leading edges of its delta wing curled downward a little, suggesting a cobra's hood. But even when it was standing still, it seemed to be moving, and when its engines opened wide, it snapped forward like a toy on a rubber cord and leaped into the air at a sharp angle. The plane was the new B58 Hustler, a bomber made by Convair...
...interest in his own undoing before the labor investigating committee. Beck Junior exhibited nothing but slouching boredom as he heard charges that he had been handed some $69,000 as a Teamster organizer, never did a lick of work for his pay, profited $19,500 on the sale of toy trucks to Teamster locals, and received more than $5,000 in trinkets-cameras, washing machines, etc.-from Teamster Pal Nathan Shefferman. The one noticeable ripple in Beck Junior's sea of silence came when John McClellan asked him if he was married. After a nervous giggle and a consultation...
...ignominy began when ten students, dressed as pirates and armed with toy flintlocks, rowed over to the Bennington one cold dawn and simply marched up the gangway Without anyone's seeing them. Though they eventually ran into a few crewmen in the course of their wanderings, no one bothered to challenge them. One group of pirates ended up in a crew's quarters to collect money for a children's charity. Another group headed for the bridge, where a "good-natured bloke" turned on the public-address system so they could appeal for donations. Instead, "Pirate" Paul...