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Ever since it was built for the 1932 Olympics, the bobsled run at Lake Placid, N.Y., has been considered the ultimate twist by the world's top bobsledders. Plummeting down through 16 curves, it was tricky, low-banked, and so wide that a slight miscalculation sent a sled careening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Witches' Pot | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Leaping & Somersaulting. Shunted back into eleventh place as the starter's green flag dropped, Gurney played a waiting game as A. J. Foyt, Goldsmith and the others dueled for the lead. Bumper to bumper the cars snarled around the circuit, hitting close to 150 m.p.h. on the straightaways, sliding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dan's Day | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

The I.T.U. has rejected this plan for a combination of historical and practical reasons. Since it is a craft union--one of the oldest and perhaps the proudest craft union--its members view their jobs virtually as their own property. They consider themselves highly skilled craftsmen (as, indeed, they are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Newspaper Strike | 1/23/1963 | See Source »

Sordi at 42 is a clever straightface comic rather like Peter Sellers served with oil and vinegar. But he cannot elude a tricky problem the picture poses : how to put Mars in motley without suggesting that war is fun? Director Luigi Comencini conceives an interesting solution: play humor against horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: War Is Heh-Heh-Hell | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

White-Hot Metal. The most striking Middletown project is SNAP-50, a lightweight nuclear-power reactor designed to operate in space. Incorporating technical know-how gained on the airplane-engine project, this SNAP (for Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power) contains liquid lithium and gaseous potassium, tricky fluids that would drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Physics: Reactor for Space | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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