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Champagne flowed at a rate that rivaled that of the Olympus engines' fuel consumption. At mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h.) which we passed without a tremor, came the food-smoked salmon, rib of veal, château potatoes, cheese, apricot pastry, Chablis Vaudésir and Château Haut-Brion, plus liqueurs. Many passengers paid the smoothness of supersonic flight the ultimate compliment; they fell asleep. We touched down in Dakar, West Africa, right on schedule, refueled and were on our way to Rio in an hour. A minor engine problem held our speed below mach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Supersonic Debut: Two Views | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...Kitzbühel, Austria. It has been less than two weeks since Canadian Downhill Racer Dave Irwin spun out of control off the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Test of the Best on Snow & Ice | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Three of the starting five were injured in that debacle, frozen to the bench for Radcliffe's last valiant effort against Yale Sunday. Sue Williams aggravated a rib injury in a collision with a Quaker that will put the Cliffe's star shooter out of action for the next three weeks...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: 'Cliffe Cagers Deep Freezed, Suffer Triple Loss In Ivy Bid | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

...Association and the American Red Cross. Standing in back of the victim, the rescuer reaches both arms around him, makes a fist and grasps it with the other hand. Then, placing the thumb side of that fist against the victim's abdomen above the navel but below the rib cage, the rescuer presses his fist sharply upward. This elevates the diaphragm and compresses the lungs, increasing the air pressure within the windpipe and forcing the food particle out like a cork from a champagne bottle. Since Heimlich began popularizing it a year and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Dec. 8, 1975 | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...depths of her depression she opened it and immediately began to howl with laughter. The cartoon she first turned to was by Ross: a football player runs towards a touchdown, shouting to the cheering crowd "Hey, fans! I've got a separated shoulder and a broken rib, but nothing can stop me! Right?" She laughed for days...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: 'Dear no, Miss Mayberry--just the head' | 11/26/1975 | See Source »

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