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...once he is in motion, Hayes accelerates like a dragster. Within 40 yds., he is moving at top speed. Then, as if he had flipped a switch, he goes into overdrive-a kind of higher-than-high gear, in which he actually seems to be flying along about 3 in. off the ground...
...Elis had captured eight of eight events when Abramson, the Crimson's last hope to score a win against frontline Bulldog opposition, took the starting blocks. His Eli rivals stayed with him for the first four laps, but couldn't keep pace when the Crimson junior shifted into high gear. Abramson's time was 5:05.5, only 0.3 off his own Harvard record...
Anything for Anyone. Thanks to the cold war, corporate rivalries and Big Crime-not to mention old-fashioned marital jealousy-curiosity has built a fat-cat industry. The Federal Government alone is believed to buy about $20 million worth of bugging gear a year. Moreover, this total does not include all purchases by the bug-infested CIA, which likes to shop through dummy agencies. No manufacturer admits selling to hoods or pleasure snoopers, but most of them believe that their competitors do. Says Fred East, Los Angeles County district attorney's investigator: "Anyone can buy any kind of bugging...
...laughs that just aren't there. Maria Perschy, a German import who resembles Romy Schneider, plays Paula's roommate, which gives her a chance to carry messages back and forth and practice her English. The movie's chief support lies in a wagonload of outdoor gear supposedly borrowed from Abercrombie & Fitch. Of note to sportsmen is a pair of inflatable waders-step into a drop-off and the pants fill with air, quickly ballooning so big that they flip the occupant over in the water, head down. If a man can't get hold...
...surface. Wernher von Braun, head of the Marshall Space Flight Center, thinks that the first lunar-landing vehicle can make its touch down cautiously, its rocket engine slowing it almost to a halt while the crew men select a good place to land. If they see their landing gear disappearing into impalpable dust, they can rise, move sideways and try another landing somewhere else...