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...been called "the Ty Cobb of squash." "Vic would chew glass to win," says his former Harvard coach, John Barnaby. Niederhoffer has been accused, on occasion, of being a "court hog," deliberately getting in his opponents' way-a capital crime in squash. ("There are two ways of dealing with a court hog," explains a player. "First you talk to him. Then you let him have it right in the butt.") He is also a bit too temperamental for traditionalists' tastes-protesting volubly whenever he thinks an opponent has blocked his way, flinging his arms toward heaven when...
...Edward Warren announced that his Coal & Allied Industries Ltd. would open a new mine in Cessnock, 80 miles north of Sydney; it will be worked with automatic equipment, including a U.S.-manufactured continuous miner, which is operated by three men, crunches coal seams with spinning metal teeth and can chew out ten tons a minute. Helped by government tax allowances, mine owners have so far spent $236 million on such new equipment; 98% of Australia's rich black coal is now efficiently mined by machine instead of pick and shovel. Mechanical equipment has trimmed the work force from...
Third World Force. The subject of rice probably never came up before the well-fed delegates at the nine-day Tri-Continental Conference, which drew 505 delegates from 85 countries to Havana's Hotel Libre. They had enough ideology to chew on, what with Peking's delegates bickering with the Russians and Moscow's men biting right back. Castro himself was all unity...
...versatile, beguiling imp of a clown. She can fumble a cigarette between her teeth like a crazed nicotine addict and fire off machine-gun bursts of smoke. She can walk as if her body were an afterthought, or collapse in a chair like a punctured accordion. She can chew grammar like bubble gum, or make English ring with the elegance of George III's crystal...
...playing in London, centers on an elderly, cigar-smoking lesbian and her doll-baby secretary-companion. Whenever the younger woman offends the older, she is forced to atone for it. One penance is to drink a cup of the old lesbian's bath water, another is to chew up one of her soggy cigar stumps...