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...bindings, Betsy with a pair of toy skis. Both grew deadly serious about skiing, wangled time off from high school to attend meets. Both were good enough to make the 1956 Oympic team, where they ran headlong into the great European skiers. Working out on a slalom slope in Italy, they were passed by the French women's team. "They flashed by us like jet planes," Penny recalls. "Betsy and I just looked at each other, speechless. We thought we should have stayed at home." Neither of the girls did well in the Olympics. Says Penny philosophically...
Solar Orbit. The earth and moon, whirling around each other, are not alone in space. They also orbit around the sun, and so do the other planets. A gravity chart of the solar system shows an enormously deep pit, the sun's, with much smaller pits in its slope, one for each planet. When a spaceship has climbed out of the earth's gravitational pit, it is still deep in the sun's pit. This does not mean that it will fall into the sun. Besides the comparatively small speed contributed by its own engine, it also...
...Miracles. Despite this initial record of accomplishment, De Gaulle has a long way to go. In fact, his very conditions for returning to power?that he be summoned on his own unquestioned terms?made it necessary for circumstances to be almost beyond retrieving before he would take over. The slope that lies before him is steep. Wonders Socialist Guy Mollet: "Frenchmen expect miracles of De Gaulle. But can he work miracles...
...walls began cracking again. As some workers straightened, there was suddenly an enormous sigh that forced a windstorm through the miles of galleries, and the whole slope of Rosenburg Hill caved in. As 400,000 tons of stone and earth crashed into the caverns, the three tunnel mouths spouted out flying stone and dust like miniature volcanoes. Screaming men and women ran bloodily from the caves, dragging with them other workers who had been knocked unconscious. Groping through the thick fog, slipping on the wet clay topsoil, they screamed for help. The village priest and the schoolteacher spread the alarm...
About a half a mile from the industrial monolith, the campus of 2,500-student Lehigh University, stands above and apart from Bethlehem, on the steep slope of South Mountain...