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...Association's top hot-rodders raced against each other and against a clock. Two by two, in a series of elimination heats, they "herded" their cars over a straight quarter-mile run, tested both acceleration and top speed as they were clocked through the same sort of electronic trap that cops use to nab speeders. Fastest of all were the Class AA dragsters, driven by such seasoned campaigners as 28-year-old Pete Robinson, an auto-parts manufacturer from Atlanta, who is the current U.S. champion. Stripped to the bare essentials-a naked steel frame, a bucket seat, racing...
This assumption of reciprocity is, at least as of 1962, quite baseless. Although we often go much too far in assuming that we are entirely sinless and they totally evil, reaction to this exaggeration should not lead us into the other trap of equating two societies which still have very distinct interests and very distinct assumptions about the permissable uses of power. It still is our great interest to prevent the expansion of Soviet political hegemony, and all the evidence still indicates that the threat of force remains an indispensable tool of prevention. Soviet society has changed since the Stalin...
...teaching my classes that it was General Paul von Hindenburg who fulfilled the dream of his life in leading an army against an enemy in East Prussia, an area he knew as well as his own estate. With Ludendorff as his chief of staff, Hindenburg proceeded to set the trap for the advancing Russian army, and as they approached the outskirts of Tannenberg, his troops enveloped the left flank, destroying the major part of 4½ corps. This was the most complete German victory of the whole war, and Hindenburg was forever idolized in the minds of Germans...
...begins to make passionate, terrified love to her at the edge of a sand trap...
...girl's chances for happiness in her unequal partnership are pitifully slim. But Director Guy (The Mark} Green-with the help of Scriptwriter Julius (Tender Trap) Epstein, who at a dozen points has strengthened the motivation of the characters and the plausibility of the plot-plays so skillfully on the spectator's sentiments that even strong men may find themselves sniffling with joy at the poor kid's wedding. Green's management of the actors is also superb; every member of the cast performs at the top of his talent, and the 19-year...