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While I've always enjoyed a whirl down the Highland St. hill on my Flexible Flyer, my idea of a good time stops short of broken bones and cranial concussions...
LIKE RICHARD M. NIXON, little Georgie dreams of trains passing in the night. Georgie's train, Broadwaybound, will whirl him breathlessly on to stardom, if only he can catch hold of its handlebars. In his passion to board the train, Georgie plays a politician's game; brash and overeager, he lets his ambitions run roughshod over personal relationships. An act and a half and one wife later, metamorphosed into Broadway actor/composer/producer George M. Cohan, he pleads his success: "I'm not just on that train, I own it," he says...
...prowl. Schorr started quietly enough as a print reporter in 1934-seven years for minor wire agencies and five years freelancing. Later he worked for CBS abroad, mainly in Central Europe, and did not reach Washington until 1966. He married late (at 50) and skips the Washington social whirl in favor of his two small children, family life and work. His energies are boundless. He was the lone reporter on a winter Sunday evening last March waiting for Nelson Rockefeller's return from a Puerto Rico vacation. Grabbing the opportunity, Schorr got Rockefeller to admit that his CIA commission...
...metallurgy and aerodynamics make such disasters much less likely today. NASA's Ohio windmill, for instance, borrows directly from helicopter design. Like a chopper's rotor, the 2,000-lb. blades can be "feathered" (or turned on their axes), by manual control; they will continue to whirl at a steady 40 r.p.m. even as the wind varies. In future NASA models, chip-sized computers developed for spacecraft will monitor the performance of the windmills and automatically command them to adjust to wind changes...
...dropping his spear with an audible clatter; and Sills handled it all by laughing. The more tired she got, the more often she sat down between arias to massage her back, the more she joked with Diaz and Verre,; a few times they missed their cues and had to whirl around and catch the line in mid phrase. At one point while Sills herself was running through an aria. Schippers barked out a directive--she thought he was going to stop so she started to speak. A second later she realized that the music was still going, caught her ascending...