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Soon Sasha was fed up with his homeland. From his technical school he stole 35 rubles, some stamps, and a pair of wire-cutters, headed for the frontier between Russia and Turkey. He got within a few yards of his goal. One night last November, as Sasha tried to clip his way through the barbed-wire frontier fence, a flare shot into the sky, alarm bells began to jangle, and border guards grabbed Sasha. Moralized Izvestia: "This character, a quite exceptional phenomenon in our country, has become a renegade, betrayed his friends, parents and country. Let him answer before Soviet...
Andre took his triumph easily. He assured all who would listen that he has no intention of beginning a concert career until he finishes high school, and that his experiments with tone row composition would never take his attention from his playing. Beaming endlessly above his clip-on bow tie, he posed for a few hundred pictures, then sat down with his mother to watch all the excitement he had stirred up. "How do you feel, Andre?" said Bernstein. "Could you go out there right now and do it again?'' "Sure," said Andre, and he meant...
...another try. The field in the $66,000 Grand National stock car race (distance: 500 miles) included such daredevils as Glenn ("Fireball") Roberts, Paul Goldsmith and Len Sutton. But in prerace speed trials, Gurney maneuvered his hopped-up 1963 Ford around the twisting, 2.7-mile circuit at a record clip of 99.5 m.p.h.. and rival drivers tabbed him as the man to beat. "If his machine can take the punishment," said Joe Weatherly, the 1962 U.S. stock car champion, "there'll be a lot of us chasing...
...invaders from Ithaca never really threatened. Looking as if they had never seen a zone defense, their attack was totally ineffectual. The Big Red shot at a scintillating 27 per cent clip, and never came closer than 35 to 27 after the Crimson's early outburst...
...more basic factor, some Detroiters insist, is that the consumer now has an uncommonly big backlog of spare cash; in 1960, savings accounts in the U.S., which had long been growing at a steady $10 billion-a-year clip, suddenly increased by $20 billion. This created a pent-up buying potential, which needed only to be triggered...