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...steep course in Wengen, Switzerland, slamming into the hillside at 60 m.p.h., cracking a rib and suffering a severe brain concussion. Despite the injuries and a steady downpour, though, Irwin has been working out here. "I took a couple of free runs today," he says. "Straight down, nonstop. " He will be back out every day from now on. "There's nothing a doctor can do for me," he says. "The cracked rib still hurts a little, but I'm doing stretching exercises to improve my lung intake. About the brain concussion -I'll just need a little...
...East Side. A big (6 ft. 5 in.), bouncy, exuberant man with a cherubic Irish face and a floppy lock of prematurely gray hair, Moynihan, 48, has a well-developed ability to both charm and infuriate. Walking down a corridor, he can pick up a retinue with a nonstop monologue of patter, pontification and wisecracks ("If the U.N. didn't exist, it would be impossible to invent...
Despite some impassioned speech-making and nearly nonstop lobbying in and around O.A.U. headquarters, neither side budged from its opening position...
...French thus are supposed to devise substitutes for the ubiquitous anglicisms that comprise a good part of their everyday vocabulary: such non-bons mots as bestseller, sexy, blue jeans, bowling, gadget, checkup, checkout, jumbo jet, baby sitter, nonstop, dead heat (pronounced did it), hot dog, hijack, racket, zoom, jukebox, call girl, marketing, merchandising and leasing. Evidemment, the government will need un computer -preferred usage: ordinateur-to track down the offending business man, a designation that is not precisely conveyed by its closest French equivalent, l'homme d'affaires, and even less by la femme d'affaires...
...scheduled flight from Omaha to Trinidad, for example, can take 16 hours, with stopovers in Chicago, Miami, San Juan, Kingston and often Barbados. An O.T.C. trip cuts it to four hours-in addition to the savings in cash. Milwaukee's Odyssey Travel is chartering Pan Am flights nonstop to the Caribbean from Des Moines, Indianapolis, St. Louis and other Midwestern cities. Marvin Smith, vice president of Boston's American International Travel Service Inc., estimates that more than 30% of O.T.C. tourists have rarely strayed more than 500 miles from home and have never taken a vacation...