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...next day little Albert Thomas proved it could be-done-provided the distance was not the mile. In the two-mile run, Thomas let Elliott set the pace, then sped past him at the 1½-mile mark to win going away in 8:32 for a new world's record. Only a month before, the unheralded Thomas had set another world's record over the brand-new Santry track when he ran three miles in 13:10.8. Said he happily: "Santry must be the fastest track in the world...
This month, when the Air Force's Atlas sped 2,500 miles over the Atlantic, pictures of its virtually blunt nose seemed strange to the streamline-minded. But current Atlas and Thor noses are likely to stay blunt for good reason. Developed by General Electric, they are made mainly of heavy copper, which helpfully spreads and diffuses the heat. But the main design trick is to keep the nose from ever getting too hot. The bluntness creates a shielding shock wave out front that cuts the velocity of the air actually hitting the nose to subsonic speed, then slows...
...hands still clutching the wheel that was no longer there. On the asphalt of the highway, the motorcycle cop was sprawled dead. Behind him, two gendarmes in a jeep sat dazed and bleeding behind shattered shatterproof glass. Stopped still farther back, Sami Solh's limousine turned round and sped up the mountain road. The assassins made off. That evening fellow townsmen of Fayet Esrouer lugged heavy oak caskets down the jagged river gorge to bring home to Beit Meri what was left of their friends...
...palace. Once, he flew over the city in a helicopter. Another time he visited the airport where some 3,000 British paratroops represent his final bastion of strength. The young King rode in his bulletproof Cadillac surrounded by nine soldier-filled Land Rovers topped with machine guns. The motorcade sped through streets closed to all other traffic and along a route lined with Legionnaires armed with Tommy guns. As the King stood at attention watching a parade of red-bereted paratroops, a bomb went off in the city behind him-the seventh in a week. Hussein took a flight...
Explorer IV sped into space with a double task firmly impressed on its electronic senses. It must report on the belt of radiation, probably particles from the sun, that was found by Explorer III about 600 miles above the earth's surface. And it must tell U.S. scientists more than they yet know about cosmic rays...