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That comment cut deeply toward the root of the question. Stalin and the force which he controlled could stop, start again, turn, twist, dissemble and maneuver. Stalin & Co. were as far as men could be from the compulsive Wagnerian frenzies that had launched Hitler upon the world and swept him...
At 28,000 ft., the planes pulled out of their dives. The shock waves, increased in force by the turning maneuver, continued straight down to the ground and were heard as explosive bangs. Colonel Franklin Paul, chief of the Air Materiel Command's Flight Test Division, explained that a...
The "double-double-axe," Button's favorite routine, was the high point of his performance. This maneuver involves a backward leap, two-and-a-half body spins, and a feather landing ending in a long glide to the left. The whole figure takes 30 feet of ice.
Next on the Championship agenda is the improvised "freo" skating event in which Button is considered to be without parallel. His tour de force, unduplicated by any skater in recent years, is a jump called the "double-double-axie." In this text, Button comes into the jump skating backwards, leaps...
The Future. The garden variety of double-Axel, which was the Button sensation of 1949 in the free-skating event, requires the performer to come into the jump skating backwards. The rest of the requirements: a tremendous leap, 2½ body spins, a feather landing, and a smooth blade-cut...