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...next to last to start. Carefully, for luck, he touched each blade-then the Swiss were off. Using Feierabend's simple formula-"Hug the curves high and develop speed, like a dive bomber"-the Swiss sled was soon hitting 80 m.p.h. It spun through a series of labyrinth curves, down an ice-coated chute into famed Crystal Curve (where 24 sleds cracked up in 1950), then whipped across the finish line in a wild flurry of snow as the brakeman pulled to a stop. The announced time brought a roar from the crowd: 1:18.94, a new record...
Everest, writes Planner Hunt, rises above an icefall resembling "a gigantic cascade . . . Almost, you might expect to hear the roar of that immense volume of foaming water . . . plunging down with terrifying power. But it has been gripped by the intense cold, frozen into immobility ... [Yet] this labyrinth of broken ice is moving, its surface changing." High over the monumental, 2,000-foot icefall, with its treacherously shifting crevasses and its crashing, house-high blocks of ice, stands a greater obstacle-a steep slope of ice and snow rising a vertical distance of 4,000 feet. Beyond that lies the last...
...cause crippling pain. Some abnormalities of the senses may easily go undetected, especially in the slipshod license examinations given in most states. Notable among these are tunnel vision-the ability to see straight ahead, but not far enough to the right or left-and disorders of the labyrinth of the ear, which controls balance. Also, there is the matter of age: "All [drivers] over 65 should have annual re-evaluations," said the Virginia doctors...
Wriston envisioned the solution and today the "Quadrangle" stands as a monument to the new Brown cohesion. This eight-acre series of muddled dorms and fraternities houses 60 per cent of the undergraduates. A pale-red brick wall and grass moat surround the labyrinth of closely-packed buildings. No one suffers from clostrophobia and everyone finds they have a new centralized social life...
...Administration's economic program had been designed to promote individual liberty and initiative. Said Ike: "To free our economy from bonds that denatured healthy and necessary competition, we abolished a labyrinth of needless controls." And while the $258 billion increase in the federal debt in the last 23 years forbade immediate lowering of taxes, "the Executive and the Congress reduced the previous Administration's budget request for the current year by almost $13 billion . . . some $80 for every American...