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...control in practice and hurtled to his death. Next came a treacherous se ries of bumps: unlike more timid competitors, who hugged the surface, using their legs as shock absorbers, Zimmermann boldly catapulted over the bumps with great, bounding leaps of 45 ft. or more. Crouching low, he plunged headlong down an almost vertical precipice; his speed shot up to 60 m.p.h., his skis chattered, and the wind whistled through the ear holes in his crash helmet. Finally Zimmermann was in the homestretch, zipping through the Velodrome, a 400-yd. series of banked interconnecting turns, and on down the last...
Peter was 23 and an architecture student in Leningrad. He was eager to talk, and so we spent several evenings together in youth cafes or walking along the hundreds of canals that crisscross the city. Words spilled out of him in an excited, headlong flow...
...biggest impetus to construction lately has been the headlong rush of investors to throw up new apartment buildings in cities, suburbs and practically anywhere they would fit. This eagerness pushed apartment construction up 19% last year, but caused some overbuilding in such cities as New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Houston. One result: apartment building can be expected to slow up this year, holding the growth of all urban residential construction-which accounts for more than a third of all money spent on building-to a 3% increase v. 8% last year. Construction by businesses, which accounts...
...week's end the student turmoil continued, and insurgents stepped up their attacks on police outposts and army convoys. In heavily guarded Government House, Ne Win was still hard at work pushing his headlong, headstrong course toward socialism. Last week he nationalized 17 more private organizations, including the Automobile Association of Burma and a tailors association. After all, there's not much left to nationalize-not even the Red Cross or the Boy Scouts, both of which were taken over months...
...presumably knew the answer-Anthony DeAngelis, 48, the president of the bankrupt Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corp.-clammed up. Allied set off the whole mess through its headlong speculation in vegetable-oil futures, and its failure to meet margin requirements brought down Wall Street's venerable Ira Haupt Co. Last week pudgy "Tino" DeAngelis, a onetime foreman in a New York hog-processing company, walked into a New Jersey courtroom crowded with 50 law yers who hoped for some answers. To the exasperation of all, DeAngelis took the Fifth Amendment 58 times in re sponse to questions...