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...danced into the small hours at a local disco, and returned in the morning to fly the prototype of a B-1 bomber. He is an avid wild-game hunter ( he decorates his office with his kills) , a motorcycle enthusiast, an expert skier and an amateur rodeo rider...
...Industrie and the new Abidjan Hilton, the city's profile is reminiscent of Florida's Epcot Center. Traffic across the Pont Général De Gaulle bustles every bit as much as along the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C., and even an occasional water skier can be spotted crisscrossing the wake of an outboard on the lagoon-like Cocody...
...life, he said, talking to his guests was the part he liked best. He raised his snifter, and when he drank, the snifter pushed his half-spectacles from the tip of his nose to the bridge. When he removed the snifter, the eyeglasses slid back, like a beginning skier on a beginners slope...
...South East Asian Nations will increase next year by about ½ to 1½ percentage points. High-flying Singapore, with its fast-growing electronics and financial-services industries, will lead the way. Said Board Member Pang Eng Fong of the National University of Singapore: "We feel like a water skier being pulled by a speedboat. We dare...
...exMarine, Janklow, 5 ft. 10 in. and 225 Ibs., calls himself "the world's best fat-man water skier." He has padded around the Governor's mansion in bunny pajamas. He drives a Corvette and a pick-up truck and, while Governor, has been ticketed for speeding on his Yamaha 1100 motorcycle. He presides over an annual birthday "sock hop" in a greaser's T shirt. But most of Janklow's constituents look beyond the quirks. Admits Frankenfeld: "He's given South Dakotans a sense of pride in their state they haven't felt...