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WHAT CAN YOU SAY about a man who once fired his secretary for not making a tuna fish sandwich on time? A man whose Williams College classmates voted him "Class Griper" and "Shovels It Fastest" in his college yearbook? A man who tried to explain away his $100,000 in illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign as an oversight? A man whose employees privately call him the "Fuhrer...
...nuclear arms as a way of posturing," said Kosta Tsipsis, a professor of Physics at MIT. "The arms race is a contest of who can build the fastest, most destructive, most efficient weapons, and we are saturating every parameter of the contest," Tsipsis added...
What the recent Polish events illustrate is something more than that fastest rule is possible within the framework of a Communist society, whereas democrat government and worker self-rule are clearly in- tolerable--and will not be tolerated. I would contend that what they illustrate of a truth we should have understood a very long time ago: that Communism is fascism successful fascism if you will... Communism is in itself a Variant the most successful variant, of fascism." "The Lesson of Poland." Susan Sontag, January...
Richard B. Black, 48, won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1978 for running the fastest continuous vertical, mile, up and down the stairs of Chicago's Lake Point Tower (time: 2 hr. 9 min. 45 sec.). Now Black has achieved a very different kind of notoriety. He is a chief executive officer who is suing the company he worked for. Black has filed a lawsuit that accuses his former employer, AM International, and some of its ex-executives of misrepresenting the firm's financial condition when he was hired a year ago. Black...
...fastest team in the conference when they want to skate, the icemen were too much for a tight B.C. squad playing catch-up-hockey. "They're a different team than they were back in January," said Eagle coach Len Ceglarski. "They've grown up. They've got composure. They do a lot of things right out there...