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...Tener Weir and his National Steel Corp., No. 5 U.S. producer, last week resigned from American Iron & Steel Institute. Mr. Weir gave no explanation. Explanation was superfluous, in view of the history of the past two months. In that period he had twice kicked the industry soundly in the rump and his competitors were angry...
Many a pilot has known the rump-tightening sensation that comes when an engine quits on a takeoff. No pilot ever liked the feeling. For from that point on the lives of pilot and passengers depend on his cool skill and on lots of luck. Unless there is a good open field ahead, the chances are heavy for a bad crash...
...brother: 16 flamencos in all. Flamenco Agustin Castellan Sabicas is a wonderful guitarist, and Uncle Sebastian Manzano (hairy and called El Pelao, the bald one) admits to having two wives and 18 children in Spain. It is Carmen Amaya who stops the show with the wrigglings of her round rump and wiry body, the tossings of her disheveled gypsy hair, the animal fury of her tough, splash-mouthed face. In the improvised measures of flamenco dances like the Soleares and Alegrias, never twice alike, Amaya's incredibly swift foot-stamps, finger-snappings and castanet-clacks are something...
...landed on a canopy. Max Haas got that one too. He has twice won Leica awards for his pictures-once (in 1936) for a shot of German Fighter Max Schmeling looking out of the dirigible Hindenburg, once (in 1938) for a candid shot of a woman spectator's rump at a Forest Hills tennis match...
Charlie Cottar was the first man to chew cut plug in East Africa. It awed the natives. So did his exploits as a hunter. He kicked a water buffalo in the rump to make it face his gun. He choked a leopard to death. Once he took a leopard cub home and raised it as a pet. When the leopard grew up he took it with him on hunting trips. It would follow him like a Scottie. One night he woke up in his tent with a leopard breathing on his face, getting ready to spring. Charlie Cottar felt...