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...appointment as a Fogg curator in 1939. All of the works in the show? two-thirds of which were acquired over the years by Rosenberg? have increased tenfold in value. A Kirchner woodcut bought in 1945 for $90 is now worth $2,000. Klee's 1923 lithograph, Tight rope Walker, cost him $40, and now would command 15 times the price...
Mitchell had lowered himself to the bottom of the shaft by means of a rope and pulley tied around his midsection. As he attempted to raise himself back to the opening of the chasm, he became stuck...
Silent as a Ghost. The G.M. sleds resemble the Podars about as much as a Corvette does a Corvair. The innovations include shock absorbers and sports-car-type "direct" steering (v. the Podar's rope-controlled runners). In trial runs at Lake Placid, N.Y., last month, a two-man G.M. sled beat the best time of a heavier, four-man Podar -and the four-man G.M. was faster yet. At St. Moritz last week, astonished European bobbers nicknamed the two man sled "the Ghost" because its rubber-seated runners merely whispered over the ice-while the Podars clattered...
...Denver, Wegner never even got to count one. The luck of the draw gave him Bull No. 89, a cream-colored crossbreed that had never been successfully ridden. Grasping the rails of the chute, Wegner gingerly eased himself onto the bull's back and began to wrap the rope around his hand. The angry animal chose that instant to leap 4 ft. straight up, 10 ft. forward, and dig its front hooves into the dirt. Wegner flew headfirst over the horns ("like he was shot from a cannon," said one awed spectator), and as he lay gasping...
...broken into a run. Hardly a week passes without another U.S. company announcing plans to buy into a European firm, set up a subsidiary or build a plant in Europe. With company coffers bulging and home markets well saturated, U.S. businessmen are more attracted than ever by Western Eu rope's fast-expanding consumer economy and often higher profit margins. U.S. direct investment in Europe rose 40% to an estimated $1.25 billion in 1964, and nearly every large U.S. company made some sort of European move during the year. Last week General Motors, already firmly entrenched on the Continent...