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...kicks, Killy races fast cars and jumps from airplanes; he has tried his hand at bullfighting, and he has a well-deserved reputation as something of a flake. During an exhibition ski jump in Switzerland, Jean-Claude shocked spectators by dropping his trousers in midair. He once left a Volkswagen parked in the middle of an Italian hotel lobby, and three years ago, just for laughs, he and some buddies fired off revolvers on the main street of Vail, Colo...
...Last week, as the only second-year man chosen to start the N.B.A.'s All-Star game, which the East won 144-124, Bing contributed the gem of the evening. He stole a pass, drove in for a lay-up only to find his shot blocked; still in midair, he wrenched around, shifted the ball from his left to his right hand and sank it from a different angle...
...minutes, the movie does remarkably well and remains true to Joyce by coming full cycle. It employs all the author's devices to suggest eternal recurrence; for example, it begins with the last half of a sentence and ends with the first half, leaving the words dangling in midair. In sum, re Joyce: rejoice...
...early 1967, U.S. commercial aviation experts had spent a decade vainly trying to develop a highly reliable midair collision-avoidance system (CAS). The number of "near misses" by U.S. aircraft had risen to more than 400 a year; the air traffic problem would soon be compounded by the arrival of jumbo jets and the SST. Alarmed, the Air Transport Association in January started an urgent program joining six avionics manufacturers* in the search for a solution. Last week the ATA triumphantly anounced the payoff; the blueprint for a CAS that could make the skies as safe as a sailing pond...
...William Koob, 47, director of weapons at Benning. "When it's either kill or be killed." After a day of instruction and the expenditure per man of 800 BBs (which cost only as much as two M-14 bullets), half of the trainees can hit a penny in midair. An impressive 5% get sharp enough to hit a BB with...