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Some Britons who tend to demand new station houses and an end to deficits in the same breath sniff at "Dr. Beeching's bitter pills." Totally unruffled by criticism, Beeching says his goal is to convert the railways from "a political shuttlecock" into a lean, efficient business. Should he do it, Beeching would achieve distinction as a bureaucrat who disobeyed Parkinson's Law and actually managed to diminish a bureaucracy...
...glass-hard groove as he slid along, and by the time he hit the straightaway at Junction, dropping as much as one foot for every three he covered, Bibbia was close to 70 m.p.h. He "scratched ice" as he negotiated the wicked 90° turns called Battledore and Shuttlecock, but only enough to slow his sled by a fraction. Toes up once more, he skittered under a railroad bridge past nasty little bends called Scylla and Charybdis. At the finish line he was traveling 90 m.p.h. Bibbia's time for the 1,320-yd. dive: a winning...
...Records. When it came his turn last week, Connor, 38, and now an aviation executive, had to better all his past speeds to catch Bibbia. Calmly he watched a procession of other competitors fly into trouble at Shuttlecock. One shot over the lip of the turn and disappeared in the trailside snow. "He's waving to show that at least one arm is not broken," was the announcer's casual comment. Then Connor slammed onto his skeleton...
Chuteside watchers could hear him shout as he hit Battledore: "Faster, goddammit. Let's go faster." At Shuttlecock he misjudged by the merest fraction of an inch. His spiked shoes grabbed empty air as he catapulted over the rim and soared ten feet into the snow. Seconds later he was up, unhurt-but disqualified from a Cresta race for the first time in his career...
Connor clocked such a fast first run that Bibbia made a dangerous mistake trying to catch up and came to woe at Shuttlecock. With Bibbia disqualified, Doug Connor was an easy winner and once more the undisputed champion of Cresta...