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...fastest-rising independent companies are Hemdale, which started in London and moved to Los Angeles in 1978, and Cinecom, a four-year- old Manhattan firm. Hemdale, the producer of Platoon, quickly followed up with Hoosiers this year, a much praised sentimental film about an Indiana basketball team. Cinecom, which backed A Room with a View, this month released Swimming to Cambodia, a $485,000 movie that consists entirely of a monologue by Actor Spalding Gray. While both companies have lately scored huge hits, their philosophy is to survive on modest successes by keeping costs low. Says Amir Malin, Cinecom...
Clippers, which were called the "greyhounds of the sea," were the fastest ships of their day. The Sea Squall set a record by sailing from New York to Rio de Janeiro in 28 days...
...European launcher's fastest-growing competitor is the China Great Wall Industry Corp. The People's Republic has aggressively marketed its Long March- 3 booster service, offering discount prices and giving tours of its space facilities for potential Western clients. Says Sun Jiadong, the Chinese Astronautics Vice Minister: "We are willing to offer our Long March system with the most meticulous service...
...greatest threat are those most likely to consort with infected drug addicts: mainly the inner-city poor, who tend to be black or Hispanic. "Two- thirds of the heterosexual cases now are black and Hispanic, concentrated on the East Coast," says Curran. "I would predict that AIDS would spread fastest in those communities...
...week in four one-sided yacht races that showed U.S. sailors and Australian sportsmen at their best. The man who unthinkably lost the trophy three summers ago, San Diego's Dennis Conner, won it back with guile at the beginning and grace at the end, not to mention the fastest sailboat on the Indian Ocean. "I didn't see a foot put wrong in any one of the races by any one of their team," losing Skipper Iain Murray said admiringly. "We made a few mistakes and were a little bit off the pace." Beaten to every buoy, they finished...