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Cornell uses the hypersonic tunnel to find out what will happen to a guided missile that enters the atmosphere from space at many times the speed of sound. Even if it flies perfectly straight, it gets a rugged workout, with luminous gas racing around it hot enough to melt or vaporize any known substance. If it enters sideways with a yawing motion, as is more likely, the heating effect is much greater. A steel ball or a sharp-edge wedge turns into an artificial meteor...
Atomic scientists who work their way conscientiously through the razor-sharp distinctions of the Gray report will have no illusions that it was conceived by anti-intellectuals. Trying to think up rebuttals to its spare, muscular propositions, as they will find out, is an exhilarating, exhausting mental workout...
...Workout in the Gym. Last year, with his father's backing, he launched the tabloid, twelve-page L'Express, hoped to "find a formula which would be a sort of cross between TIME and the [London] Economist. Servan-Schreiber has not hit that formula yet, but he has some other working formulas of his own. Up every day at 4 a.m., he works for about four hours before leaving for his office. Promptly at 7 every evening, Health Enthusiast Servan-Schreiber ("We French eat too much and exercise too little") and his ten-man staff cross the Champs...
...Grey was in bad trouble. After a brisk nine-furlong workout at Belmont one morning last week, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Native Dancer (TIME, May 31) pulled up with a sore right forefoot. Trainer Bill Winfrey could feel a suspicious warmth just above the hoof, but X rays showed no internal injury. Two days later, the colt galloped a couple of miles on the training track and snorted home with no sign of pain. Relieved, Winfrey began to step up the Dancer's training, but after a three-furlong breeze, the Big Grey came back in such distress...
Coach Harvey Love will load a group including the varsity, jayvee, freshman, and combination heavy crews to the encampment in time to hold an early evening workout Friday. It will be their first practice in preparation for the 89th annual Harvard-Yale Regatta, to be held on the Thames Saturday, June...