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...speed until he was doing an estimated 340 m.p.h. Suddenly, Campbell's voice crackled over the radio. "She's tramping [shaking]! She's tramping! She's going!" Bluebird's right pontoon lifted, then her nose; finally, the whole boat went airborne, looped over backward, slammed back into the water, and sank. Divers finally located Bluebird, split in two on the lake bottom 142 ft. below. At week's end they were still searching for Campbell's body...
...change. Although Evans' ideas could be better ordered, the loose organization of his essay brings across the sense of a country experimenting with a great number of policies--trying to solve many problems at once. Evans draws a poignant picture of a Tanzanian Development Officer leading the fight against backward traditional customs...
...entreporneurs of Grove Press have at last struck real pay dirt, the anti-Comstock lode of lewd literature. It should make queasy readers reach for their Turns, which as everybody knows, is smut spelled backward...
This time, Governor George Wallace is already fielding requests from applicants anxious for even the temporary honor of serving as a supreme court justice. Those chosen are likely to bend over backward being fair: there is always a chance that they may later appear before Justice Simpson's court. And at 73, he has every intention of staying on the bench indefinitely. Back in 1961, the state legislature passed a law aimed at forcing elderly judges to retire in order to get full retirement benefits. Justice Simpson simply announced that his brethren would rule the law unconstitutional...
...hell for Westerners but bearable for Eastern peasants. The Chinese are constantly exhorted to read the works of Mao Tse-tung daily, and Riboud offers several pages of Mao's sayings. Sample: "Learning is like rowing a boat against the current; if one stops, one goes backward...