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Mitch Silverman was the only other loser for the Crimson, as Engineer Jack Mosinger handed him a 5-2 decision at 118 lbs. Kip Smith, wrestling unlimited, held off his gargantuan opponent Erlan Van Lithejude in the final match and pulled...
...compared to the Catfish-sized heists staged today. To make a legend out of a man's childish disrespect for authority only detracts from the truly staggering aspect of Ruth's life--his phenomenal contribution to baseball. It is the home run and not Ruth's antics or his gargantuan appetites that is synonymous with the name Babe...
Since the energy crisis and a gargantuan fourfold increase in petroleum prices, however, such chuckles have died away. Instead, there is anger that prices artificially set by the 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries give those nations massive revenues to invest in the West. The new and powerful image of the oil oligarchs has prompted many menacing scenarios, including New York magazine's recent fantasy about a successful military conquest by the Shah of Iran...
Glum economic prognostications abound, but when New York Stock Exchange Chairman James J. Needham spoke before the Economic Club of Detroit last week, his predictions were gargantuan as well as dire. Using figures based on an N.Y.S.E. study, Needham estimated that U.S. capital demands through 1985 will amount to a cumulative total of $4.7 trillion. During the same period, he argued, the economy's savings potential will only amount to a bit more than $4 trillion. The probable result: a capital shortfall of $650 billion. That figure, says Needham, "represents the projected gap between the domestic supply of investment...
...agricultural community near Pleasanton. There, behind the locked gates of an imposing cyclone fence, he watched past fights on a video cassette machine, played pool in the downstairs den, and ate the steamed vegetables and lean steaks he prefers (when not training, he relishes fried buffalo fish and gargantuan vanilla ice cream sundaes). But most of all Foreman played with his pets-four dogs and two horses. Foreman is particularly proud of his two German shepherds, Pasha and Daggo. He commands them with a smattering of German. "Platz, Daggo!" he will yell. "Stay. Stay." Daggo joined him on the trip...