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...then the struggle begins, and an unfair battle it is-for the angler. Gladius in a towering rage can strip 1.000 yds. of 80-lb.-test line off an angler's reel in the space of seconds. Unlike his cousin the marlin, he rarely wastes effort on grandstanding jumps. He runs and rolls and thrashes about, often entangling himself in the protective wire leader on the end of the line-and snaps the 500-lb.-test wire like a piece of string. Or he may charge the boat-and if he does, the boat had better...
...helicopter pilots, he is also developing a 23-lb. vest (too heavy for infantrymen) with 14 layers; the eighth layer has stopped submachine gun slugs fired from 15 yds. In Viet Nam, helicopters are armored with titanium that stops snipers' .30-cal. bullets at 200 yds. But "any closer," says Davis, "and the bullets go right through." He proposes lining helicopters with 14-layer nylon, which can increase the amount of protection by 40% while reducing the cost of the armor by about the same amount...
...Doxiadis, who spends much of his time in America, preaches that "we must re-establish the human scale by making man feel part of his environment, not overpowered by it." His goal: communities of 30,000 to 50,000 people, measuring no more than 2,000 by 2,000 yds...
Choreographer Herbert Ross yelled "Go, go!" and off she went-about 30 yds. along Manhattan's Pier 36, lurching like a sozzled sailor under the encumbrance of an ankle-length wool dress, high heels, a suitcase and makeup kit. It was one more rollicking day in the life of Barbra Streisand, movie star, and at that point the 25-year-old singer had staggered for an hour through the same one-minute scene in Funny Girl without getting it right. "My back hurts; my feet hurt!" yelled Streisand from her perch on a tugboat. "Now, now," consoled Producer...
...University of Kansas junior who at 20 is already the fastest middle-distance runner of all time. Last month in Bakersfield, Calif., Ryun lowered his own world record for the mile to 3 min. 51.1 sec. Two weeks ago in Los Angeles, he zipped through 1,500 meters-120 yds. short of a mile-in 3 min. 31.1 sec., to clip 2½ sec. off the seven-year-old mark set by Australia's Herb Elliott. Experts estimate that Ryun's time for 1,500 meters is the equivalent of a 3-min. 48.5-sec. mile...