Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fiddle on Top. Building a lightweight, sound-controlled rocket will not be easy. But Acoustica's engineers think that it is certainly possible. For a sound-making device, they intend to use a Levavasseur whistle that has no moving parts and can be made of heat-resistant material. The rocketeers figure that the best frequency to use is 10,000 cycles, about the pitch of a very high violin note. Yet the volume of sound must be well above the loudest fiddle; an ear-shattering 170 decibels, which is 100 times the sound pressure of a supersonic boom from...
Main problem facing the restorers was to find a substitute for the outer dome (the ornately decorated inner dome will remain in place). Their final answer was enough to make a sultan shudder: it is not gilt, or even silver wash, but a lightweight, gold-anodized aluminum shell (cost: $364,000). Too modern, cried some citizens; too ignoble, said others. "It will look like an ad for an orange drink." snapped one traditionalist. The builders pressed on with their work, hoping to have it finished this fall. Historians pointed out that the Caliph of Damascus had melted down...
...Harvard varsity boats celebrated the Fourth of July by winning the championship of international rowing, the Henley regatta. The heavyweights won the coveted Grand Challenge Cup, rowing's greatest honor, while the lightweight crew successfully defended the Thames Challenge...
...reach the final round, each Crimson crew defeated three opposing shells. The heavies met their greatest competition from the Isis Boat Club, composed of rowers from the Oxford varsity crew. The Union Boat Club, coached by last year's lightweight mentor, the Reverend "Joe" Brown, provided the closest race for the lightweight eight...
Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m.-conclusion). Champion Joe Brown and Paoli Rossi for the lightweight title...