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...What a rope driver gains in sensitivity, he sometimes loses in control. But Feierabend had no trouble keeping his sled on course; he bobbed his four final runs in a total time of five minutes, 10.55 seconds. U.S. Bobber Lloyd Johnson, 40, the 1953 champion, had less luck. Experimenting with rope guides earlier this month at Garmisch, he had been flipped on his head and suffered a broken collar bone. At St. Moritz, the broken bone held rigid in a splint, Johnson could not hold his sled on the chute. It climbed the wall of Sunny Corner, tossed...
Something has happened, said Dr. Namias, to the "planetary air current" the great, sinuous river of high-altitude wind that sweeps around the earth in temperate latitudes. It flows in waves like a shaken rope, and the position and size of the waves is a controlling factor in Northern Hemisphere weather...
...midnight they burst out, captured two guards. At 1 a.m. they forced the guards, at gunpoint, to give the "all's well" signal. Meanwhile, they improvised a ladder from scraps of wood, belts, bits of rope and a necktie. But it was too short to breast the prison wall, too flimsy to support their weight. By 4 a.m. three other guards had been captured. At 5 a.m. a general alarm was sounded...
Another road to riches has been found by Thomas M. Evans, 44, boss of Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co. He paid only 10? to 15? on the dollar when he bought H. K. Porter in 1937. Porter has since expanded into eleven divisions (wire rope, industrial rubber products, electrical equipment, etc.), as Evans bought up successful small companies, often with sizable cash reserves, then put them to work making more money. Porter stock, which was selling for less than $1 in 1944, last week was selling at $100 a share, as Tom Evans announced...
Some of Eisenhower's friends, who have been urging the President to roll up his sleeves and trade blows with McCarthy, noticed to their surprise that the aloof Eisenhower tactic had worked: Joe had been given enough rope and it went to his political neck...