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...certain to improve his standing on the Continent. Also, Armstrong might get some real challenges on the road this year. Jan Ullrich, the German 1997 champion and four-time runner-up who missed last year's Tour because of a knee injury, remains a threat. And this year's Giro d'Italia winner, Italian Gilberto Simoni, who sat out the last Tour because of a drug suspension that was later overturned, promises to be another contender. "[Armstrong] has always had an easy ride to Paris because he's never faced real climbers," said Simoni...
...targeting the ship or its sailors. We just consider this a dirty sponsor for such a beautiful sport." He promises further protests when Le D?fi leaves France and on its arrival in Auckland in September. Just wait until the racing starts. CYCLING Downhill Race While the Giro d'Italia came to a sprint finish in Milan on Sunday there was one thing the race still couldn't seem to shake: the annual drug scandal. Although not on the same scale as last year, when 200 police raided the cyclists' hotel rooms seizing large quantities of medicines, it doesn't bode...
Died. Guy Rowe, 75, U.S. artist whose intensely realistic portraits (with the signature "Giro") graced more than 40 TIME covers; of cancer; in Huntington, N.Y. Rowe discovered his talent via a vaudeville act in which he drew chalk portraits of well-known people; he saved enough money for art school, became a New York commerical artist, and in 1943 won his first TIME commission. The association was interrupted from 1945 to 1949 while he worked on 32 highly acclaimed illustrations to Biblical characters for the book In Our Image: Character Studies from the Old Testament. Then he went back...
Gentlemanly Debts. Giro is the most advanced, fastest-working variant of a system that has been working on the Continent for a long time. It is also the latest effort in the British post office's drive to turn the venerable institution into an aggressive, profit-making enterprise. Giro Director John Grady hopes to pay for operating costs and also make a neat profit by investing the pool of money created by Giro's constant flow of deposits. He expects that the new service will attract about 1,500,000 customers and $450 million in deposits within...
...course, Giro is not offering all the services of a bank, such as paying interest on deposits or making individual loans. Nor is it willing to emulate the gentlemanly tradition of British banks by honoring clients' overdrafts. If a Giro customer overdraws, his check is returned...