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...that bobbing is necessarily for sissies. At last week's Swiss International Grand Prix at Crans-Montana, Austria's Willi Brenter, 24, outbobbed 113 competitors in the three-mile downhill run with a brisk average speed of 46 m.p.h. Brenter's brother Erich holds the world's speed record of 102 m.p.h., which is only 6 m.p.h. slower than Luigi de Marco's speed record on skis. "It is a calumny to say that only older people are interested in ski bobs," says Erich Brenter. "Ski bobs remove some of the danger of skiing...
...Good Turn." Viola was accused of "wash trading," which involves the manipulation of stock-market transactions to create a false impression of brisk activity-and is illegal in both the U.S. and Canada. On July 10, 1964, the prosecution charged, she arranged to sell 244,000 shares of Consolidated Golden Arrow Mines Ltd., another of her companies. At the same time, she bought up the entire block for the accounts of ten persons, including her husband George. Since Golden Arrow stock had been sluggish up to that point, the sudden burst of activity was enough to send its price soaring...
...lingers over what ordinary westerns cut short in the interest of plot. A soldier is escaping across the river; a man guns him in the back. We don't see a brisk wound-writhe-tumble sequence, then cut to the next scene. We watch the fall, the body drifting in the river, the horse vaguely turning toward shore. All at a distance. No sudden tight thrill, just cool death...
...house). If guests want seclusion, they may swim through a gentle waterfall to a hidden grotto furnished with soft cushions and background music. Privacy is not complete, however; the grotto can be observed through a trap door on the main hall above. The way to a nightcap is a brisk slide down a brass firehouse pole leading to a bar, where a glass wall gives an underwater view of the pool...
Vico's Cycle. In brisk, schoolmasterly fashion (both Burgess and Joyce once taught school), Burgess expounds, for those who came in late, the ABCs of Wake. The structure of the book, he explains, follows the four-cycle theory of history devised by the Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista Vico (1668-1774), in which human societies progress through the four stages of theocracy, aristocracy, democracy and ricorso (or recurrence). The title of the book is itself a Joycean wordplay. "Finn (fin or finis) -egan" could mean "end again," suggesting the completion of Vico's cycle, while "Wake" suggests rising from...