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...such infractions as "bottom turning"-cutting in front of another surfer knifing down the wave. The surprise winner: Honolulu Schoolboy Fred Hemmings Jr., 18, who became surfing's youngest world champion ever by riding three waves 600 yds. or so, tucking himself out of sight in "the pipe" (the fastest, most dangerous part of the wave, where it rolls over and down) to gain speed, sliding around the buoys without losing "the green,"-the unbroken portion of the wave...
...ruptured sprinkler pipe set fire alarms blaring throughout Thayer Hall at 1 a.m. Sunday morning. The break, over a stairway in the south entry, lowered the water pressure until the alarms sounded automatically. The pressure then built up again and the alarms stopped, and started, and stopped, and started...
...Defense Is Ready. From its 19-story, stainless-steel headquarters in Chicago's Loop, Inland is run by another highly concentrated facility of a sort: Chairman Joseph Block, 62, whose grandfather founded the company in 1893. A pipe-smoking intellectual who surrounds himself and his colleagues with modern art, Block angered competitors in 1962 by holding the price line during the steel crisis. Although he recently came out for steel price rises now, Block is realistic enough to admit that "I don't think there is much likelihood of an across-the-board increase any time soon...
...girl," but to no avail. As he tried to carry her to safety, the rest of the girl's clothing was ripped off; Garcia's pockets were picked, his watch was snatched from his wrist, his head was smacked with what felt like a piece of pipe, and something smashed against his right kidney. His knees sagged, but he kept going...
Garbage collectors often interrupted their rummaging to read the cartoons in the back of the papers and magazines. Ultimately the last bit of trash was swallowed by a garbage truck, and a straggling Cliffle, clutching papers in one arm and a bent pipe of artistic value in the other, sighed and headed home...