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...animals. They would take the stretch of rippled pavement with whoops of joy, as if they were World War I aces plunging through the cumulus clouds over St.-Mihiel, round the corner with hardly a glance down, whish by Ord Martin's garage and then bank left for the dive downhill on the Red Baron's Flying Circus...
...oncoming L-1011, which had strayed 60 miles off its London-to- Cincinnati flight path, was traveling at the same altitude as the 747 and closing quickly. At the last moment it appeared to dive and passed only about 100 ft. beneath the 747. Meacham and other passengers could easily make out the DELTA lettering as the airliner rushed by at more than 500 m.p.h...
Despite those risks, Wall Street gave Citicorp a vote of confidence. At first, apprehensions about the bank's write-off announcement rekindled the stock market's hair-trigger fear of a banking crisis. Partly as a result, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks took a nose dive of 37.38 points on Tuesday, just before Chairman Reed made his disclosure. The market quickly stabilized the next day, and Citicorp's stock rose to close the week at 55 3/ 8, up 4. Investors praised Citicorp's openness. Said an approving Lowell Bryan, a director of the Manhattan-based McKinsey...
...constitutions of gaming stewards, the organizational ferocity of sergeants, show an abundance of guts and style. (Didn't she look the bee's knees in those swishy navy blue dresses of the 1940s?) Want to go to the park, Mom? Yes. Want to watch me do a jackknife dive? Yes. Sure. Can do. Can read Tom Sawyer aloud at bedside. Can tie sneakers. Can poach an egg, hold a job, do long division, mend porcelain, ride bikes, chase dogs...
...STAND and cheer our sports heroes's strength and skill when they grace the playing field. But when most of them drop bat and glove for a typewriter, it's time for us to dive under the seats...