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...typical Matti Nykanen performance: an explosive takeoff, an eerily long floating descent and -- as of right -- a first-place finish. The boyish Nykanen, 24, punched the air in triumph and seemed to ignore the awed congratulations of Pavel Ploc and Jiri Malec, the Czechs who finished a distant second and third. The decisive win in the 70-meter competition gave Nykanen his first gold at Calgary, with a shot at an unprecedented second and third this week in the weather-delayed 90-meter individual and team events. It also made him the first jumper in some 50 years to finish...
...Myra Malec, an aide to DeNucci, modified the office's support for the final regulations, saying that how the department of public Welfare interprets the provisions will determine its ultimate success...
...Frogman Morgan wears a gold-plated .45 with a bullet ready in the chamber. Tommy-gun-carrying bodyguards follow him around. He and his Cuban bride live in a six-room apartment on Havana's waterfront Malecón drive. It has 18 bunks, where the frog-farm workers, who call him "William,'' sleep whenever they come to town. His U.S. citizenship was lifted for fighting in a foreign army, and he laments that he is "running out of countries." But he professes optimism about his future in Cuba, even though "Fidel and Raúl know...
...knows where Castro's madness will drive him next. Cuba already has the look of a nation at war. Black-bereted militia drill in Havana's parks, empty lots, and along the seaside Malecón drive; children's yellow-shirted militia go from door to door begging contributions for "arms and planes"; the government TV station puts on a nightly street-corner "defense" telethon for arms funds...
...shoes; spectators had been knocked right out of them. Said Porsche Driver Ulf Noriden, who stopped his car and ran back to help: "I couldn't even see the Ferrari. The bodies were piled all over. I was wading in arms and legs." Panicky survivors swarmed across the Malecón, careless of the still racing cars, and police swung their billies to keep the mob in check. Just 15 minutes after it started, the race was called...