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...sled literally took off, hurling its occupants headfirst into the protective superstructure and spilling them out onto the track. The empty sled rattled on across the finish line while rescuers rushed to its crew. One had a concussion and a broken cheekbone, another was badly bruised, a third was unhurt. Driver Zardini was dead, his head crushed by the wooden safety rail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobsledding: The Deadly Zig-Zag | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...record last month, Craig discovered himself airborne at 600 m.p.h. Both his braking parachutes blew clear off the car, and he finally managed to bring the runaway machine to a stop just 300 ft. short of the same salt pond in which he had drowned its daddy. Shaken but unhurt, Breedlove riveted two stabilizing wings on Spirit's nose, and last week he was back for another try. Waving to his crew, Breedlove pushed the throttle forward, and Spirit shot off across the flats, trailing a huge rooster tail of salt spray in its wake. "At first," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Mr. & Mrs. Speedlove | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...shyness long enough to ask Joyce Halverson, an instructor's pretty, blue-eyed sister, for a date. As Charlie Brown's luck would have it, Joyce slipped on a candy wrapper while they were skating and she tumbled on the ice. But she picked herself up unhurt, and soon they were married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: Good Grief | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...Successor. During a concert in Birmingham in 1956, five white men leaped onto the stage and knocked him down. Cole was unhurt. That is, until later, when the Negro press scalded him "for kneeling before the throne of Jim Crow" by playing before a segregated audience. In Harlem, some juke joints ceremoniously smashed his records. "I'm an entertainer," he answered, "not a politician. I'm crusading in my own way. I feel I can help ease the tension by gaining the respect of both races all over the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: The King | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...pretend. One Belgian child was cut in half by a Sten-gun burst. Parents who flung themselves over their children were stitched by the wild bullets that sprayed the crowd. A woman sat openmouthed as gunfire chopped down the people on either side of her. She somehow came through unhurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Congo Massacre | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

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