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...endurance test in Denver last summer, 34 students set a record by playing continuously for 41 nights and 42 days. When University of Pittsburgh players ran out of play money during a 161-hour marathon, Parker obligingly delivered $1 million worth of new scrip by plane and Brink's armored car. To allow a group of Massachusetts scuba buffs to play under water, the company devised a waterproof set; the game lasted 11 hours. One of the more bizarre marathons occurred at Torrance, Calif., where twelve enthusiasts had their ups and downs in a Holiday Inn elevator...
...probably be warm and snug this winter. But high oil prices remain, and they threaten to knock the world off its axis. They greatly fuel the rocketing rate of inflation in most nations. They stunt economic growth almost everywhere. They compound balance of payment woes-Italy totters on the brink of bankruptcy-and thus threaten international trade, the lifeblood of an interdependent world...
Most adults can come close to starvation and survive. Hunger strikers and concentration-camp inmates have been pulled back from the brink of death with carefully measured supplements of essential nutrients. Though survivors of concentration camps tend to die sooner than their contemporaries, their deaths-or health problems-are rarely a direct result of near starvation, but are caused by old injuries or tuberculosis and other infections...
Chicago was the setting for another sort of dubious achievement last week: the largest cash theft in American history. Until then the all-time record belonged to the perpetrators of the 1962 Plymouth, Mass., mail-truck robbery, who stole $1.55 million in cash, and of the 1950 Brink's holdup in Boston, where $1.2 million of the $2.78 million haul was in cash. The profitable target in Chicago was the fortress-like facility of Purolator Security, Inc., one of the nation's largest armored-car and guard-service companies...
Portugal's fragile revolutionary government was still intact last week following ten days of political tensions that threatened to bring the country to the brink of civil war. Nonetheless, it had lost its first hero and a good deal of its innocence. General António de Spínola, 64, the hero-general of the Portuguese revolution, split with the young leftist officers who engineered the April coup and resigned as provisional President. In an emotional farewell address on television, Spínola criticized many of the government's policies and warned that they would result...