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...skeletals insist, against the evidence, that they are not mad. "When all of a sudden you're on a 10-ft. wall and you've got four G-forces pushing you into the sled, that's cool," says Utahan Lincoln DeWitt, 34. He was first in the World Cup rankings last year, but has slid a bit this year. He certainly has a shot at winning, as does teammate Jim Shea Jr., 33, of Lake Placid...
...skeletals insist, against the evidence, that they are not mad. "When all of a sudden you're on a 10-ft. wall and you've got four G-forces pushing you into the sled, that's cool," says Utahan Lincoln DeWitt, 34. He was first in the World Cup rankings last year, but has slid a bit this year. He certainly has a shot at winning, as does teammate Jim Shea Jr., 33, of Lake Placid...
...m.p.h. is not like any other kind of flying that has been available for six decades. Says Mike Circuit, 37, an ultralight instructor in Salt Lake City: "It's wind in the face, flying by the feel of it, like the old barnstorming days." Agrees fellow Utahan Ken Hurd, 42: "I've never had such excitement. In a small plane, you're enclosed. Here, you're like a bird. Everything constantly changes below you. I can't believe how things look. It's surreal...
President Roosevelt gave one of the toughest of all Washington jobs to a Utahan last week. Pink-cheeked, balding, urbane Robert Henry Hinckley, 53, a onetime Mormon missionary and small-town schoolteacher, was appointed Director of Contract Settlement...
...Utahan on Guadalcanal sent news that onetime battlefields on conquered islands were now baseball diamonds; the sound of American voices yelling "Kill the ump!" echoed through the palm trees where Japs had once hidden. ¶A New Jersey Marine wrote to his girl from the Solomons: "I am sending you a white Navy blanket from the ship's store, because it is the loveliest thing I've seen since I've been overseas...
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