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...full-sized petrol pumps attached to the rear-now tour main roads to sell motorists cut-rate gas as they speed to work or sporting events. Roadside operators have also begun to buy "distress lots" of ungraded gas and sell it cheaply under such names as "Zoom" and "Whoosh." Some of it is only 60 octane, hardly enough to run a sewing machine-but the British motorist seems unable to resist a bargain...
...Negro sergeant was sprawled in a ditch full of water. Over the steady drumfire of the rain came the cough, whoosh, crump of Viet Cong mortars. The sergeant counted on his fingers the seconds from the time of firing to the time of detonation, then lit a drooping wet cigarette and casually announced "Them's incoming sixties landin' over there 'bout a hundred yards. Nothin' to worry about." He took off his helmet wiped his face. "You know, we Airborne, we like to get things done real fast, get in there quick and out quick killin...
...With a whoosh of Royal Canadian Air Force jets streaking across the sky and a blaring salute from the 100-man honor guard below, Toronto this week will begin celebrating its sparkling new city hall. Before the festivities are over, there will be fireworks, folk dancing in the plaza, a symphonic rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, and a Toronto a go-go with no fewer than six rock 'n' roll bands. Such civic fanfare is unusual even in fast-growing Toronto. But after eight years of waiting and the expenditure of more than $30 million, Torontonians...
...aircraft designers, who is dean of science at Meijo University. All over today's industrial world, entrepreneurs, scientists and bureaucrats are busy developing imaginative ways to move men and goods both faster and cheaper. A lot of the innovations still depend on wheels, but some ride, glide or whoosh lightly over the surface on cushions of air. Certainly many an American contemplating auto traffic in Los Angeles or other big modern cities has come to the instinctive conclusion that the wheel must...
...refreshment stands and palm trees. The 250-ft.-wide ski course runs beneath four towers that support an overhead steel cable, powered by a 74-h.p. diesel engine. At ten-second intervals it carries 77-ft. tow ropes past a carpeted dock, from which the skier launches himself to whoosh around the rectangular track at about 25 m.p.h. (for experts the speed can be upped to 38 m.p.h...