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Originally Posted by xelasnave
I was there... I saw it as a boy of 10 years.. it won me an art competion..the subject for the art works was "speed" in the days when "speed" was not a term for a dangerous drug.
Well there were paintings of fast cars, boats, plans etc but I painted the little metal ball against a back drop of a dark blue "space" .. as it was the fastest thing man could lay claim to ....I took out first prize...
alex
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That reminds me of an old Advertising gimmick.
I forget the name of the company that makes the tyres for the Space Shuttle (Good Year I think), but when the first one landed back safely to Earth, the company released a whole batch of ads in magazines
"5 million miles on one set of tyres"
