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DIED. Johnny Weissmuller, 79, record-setting swimmer (five Olympic gold medals) turned cinematic Tarzan (twelve movies); in Acapulco, Mexico. "They gave me a G-string," he claimed of his MGM bosses, "and said, 'Can you climb a tree?'" Weissmuller, the archetypal Hollywood hunk, led an extravagantly untidy personal life highlighted by five failed marriages and a portfolio of foolish business ventures...
...standards of Europe and Asia and especially dwarfed by the Chinese and Soviet ceremonial chambers. That is its charm. When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. They crowd around the fires that subdue the winter chill and become neighbors. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated...
...flak from clients for buying a stock that was headed south." But when Ford bounced back to the low 60s last year, Capital Guardian earned a $300 million windfall. Sometimes it takes as much nerve to "argue with the market," observes Kirby, as it does to climb behind the wheel of a racer...
...Climbing over the fence was strictly forbidden, but I can tell you how it was done. Stand facing either the east or west gate (the method worked for both). Place your left foot between the wrought-iron bars directly over the lock, pull yourself up by holding the topmost spikes firmly with both hands, swing your right foot into one of the iron rings at the top of the gate, bring your left leg up and around, and you're home. That's all there was to it, in terms...
...world is currently waiting for a true Siegfried to climb the Valkyrie rock and rescue productions of Wagner's Ring cycle from the efforts of overstrained tenors, but the air is clearer at the higher vocal elevations. In Hildegard Behrens and Eva Marlon, both in their early 40s, there are two formidable sopranos who between them may rule the dramatic repertory for at least the next decade. Not since the heyday of Birgit Nilsson, now 67 and retired from the opera stage, has there been a singer who dominated the German roles and triumphed in dramatic Italian parts...