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...difference comes from the dynamics of high-speed motoring. When a driver traveling at highway speeds turns the wheel of a conventional, two-wheel steering car, the front tires immediately begin to pivot and the car's forward momentum generates a powerful sideways or cornering force at the front axle. The rear tires, however, have to wait until the car has actually started its turn before they begin to generate a corresponding force at the rear axle. That is why a car with two-wheel steering fishtails during lane changes, the back end is trying to catch...
...pivot, senior Tri-Captain Bill Mohlerwill return as the starter, though he should bepushed by 6-ft., 10-in. sophomore MalHollensteiner. Hollensteiner showed flashes ofbrilliance last weekend, and if he develops hecould give Harvard a true big man in a leaguewhere nearly every team is just one big man awayfrom the title...
...Pivot spends a minimum of 70 hours a week reading, making it a point to finish at least one book a day. In order to plow through more pages, he commutes to work by public transportation and when on vacation often asks his wife to drive. Besides being host of Apostrophes, he is founder and editor of France's largest (circ. 175,000) literary magazine, the monthly Lire. In addition, he has managed to write books about two of his sustaining passions, Beaujolais and soccer, and to serve as deputy mayor of the town of Quincie-en- Beaujolais in southern...
...surprisingly, Pivot's status as literary czar has fostered some resentment. In 1982 Writer Regis Debray, then an aide to President Mitterrand, denounced Pivot, accusing him of exercising a "virtual dictatorship over publishing markets." The public outcry over Debray's criticism was so strong that Mitterrand quickly endorsed Pivot, forcing Debray to beat a hasty retreat...
...only has Pivot no peers, he has no rivals either. He was offered five or six times his current salary (reportedly $160,000 a year) to bring Apostrophes to one of France's new privately owned television networks, but he decided to stay with Antenne 2. However, he says, "I would be perfectly happy to see other shows like mine." It is not a likely prospect. "We had thought of starting a literary show," says Herve Bourges, former head of TF1. "We never did. We didn't think we would ever be able to do a better job than Pivot...