Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...project, called for human volunteers a fortnight ago, he could not have been sure how many would respond. Flying at the speed of sound in a comfortable airplane designed for the purpose is not the same thing as sliding at the same speed in a rocket-pushed sled at zero altitude...
...suit for damages, alleging that Ward had wrecked the union. In ruling for the union, Judge Hermes held that the union had been seriously hurt as a result of the company's legal maneuvers. The union's membership at Ward's, once 4,000, is now zero...
...Lanchow towards Russia. The Russians are building southeast to meet the Chinese. The job has Red China's top priority. "The workers are moving mountains and filling rivers at an altitude of 9,000 ft.," Peking recently crowed. "They are battling ice floes and swift currents in sub-zero weather." The Lanchow-Sinkiang will give Russia its fastest connection to the Pacific. (The Moscow-Peking journey now takes nine days via the aging Trans-Siberian Railroad and Red China's existing networks.) The new line will also give Red China its best route to the Soviet Union...
...Compete. On opening day of the championships, despite sub-zero weather, little (pop. 18,000) Falun was jammed with some 50,000 ski-mad visitors. In the special jumping event, normally a Norwegian monopoly, the Finns, unveiling a modified "aerodynamic" technique, got their first triumph. Leaning out over his skis in an exaggerated bend that added his whole upper body to his soaring surface, Finland's Matti Pietikainen made jumps of 251 and 256 feet for an easy first place. Russia scored when bantam-size (5 ft. 3 in. 120 Ibs.) Vladimir Kusin, a Leningrad student, beat Finland...
...such sharpshooter is debonair Kurt Bader, 36, an ingenious German whose flair for showmanship unhappily surpasses his marksmanship. With his wife Hildegard, Kurt billed his show as "Aal Cherry & Mac Zero, the World-Famous Sharpshooting Act." His act involved a machine like an egg beater, across which pretty little Mac, arrayed in shorts and bra, could be tastefully spread-eagled and rotated as a "human windmill." Last week, after putting their two daughters to bed in a hotel room nearby, Aal & Mac went into their act at Cologne's Kaiserhof Theater. Their eleven-year-old son Hubert strapped...