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...13th lap, he was already lapping stragglers. Twice, he shattered the official track record, and on the 84th lap, he zipped around the 2.4-mile course in 1 min. 27.4 sec. to break it a third time-clocking 100.33 m.p.h. Smiled Lotus Designer Colin Chapman: "He must have an itch in his corset...
Like U.S. Peace Corpsmen, the Germans work hard for little pay. They sign up for their two-year hitches out of idealism and an itch for adventure, adopting the motto "To learn and to help." While young teachers and recent college graduates dominate the U.S. program, the Germans are primarily recruiting farmers, construction workers, mechanics, nurses and social workers, especially those who have already had job experience. The German goal: to send out 1,000 volunteers a year...
...says. "Besides, it's the only thing that prevents musicians like myself from getting stale." Menuhin is brimming with new projects, most notably London's Yehudi Menuhin School for musically gifted children, which he founded last year "to preserve our species from extinction." Last week the itch to move along was upon him again. Gazing up at the snow-veined mountains, he mused: "Pretty soon we will be traveling again . . . linking, bridging, weaving...
...Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet as a dancer and sometime choreographer. Five years later, critics were calling him "the young hope of British choreography." Later, as a choreographer with the Royal Ballet, he carved a reputation for uncommon versatility and invention. But always he nurtured a burning itch to discover and develop a new "pattern of movement and expression which already is deeply ingrained into the matrix of our artistic experience and potential." He longed for his own ballet company, and when he got an invitation from Stuttgart five years ago, Cranko leaped at the opportunity...
...Holden imagine themselves to be the hero and heroine of a movie within a movie: a master criminal steals the print of a film called The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower and holds it for ransom. Got it? Forget it. Lacking inspiration, Writer George Axelrod (The Seven Year Itch) and Director Richard Quine should have taken a hint from Holden, who writes his movie, takes a long sober look at what he has wrought, and burns...