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...long, and then stood there grinning and drinking. Fifty-year-old business honchos got mud on the knees of their gray flannels playing touch football among the parked cars and joshed one another loudly about bifocals and bald spots. The older wives wore mink, and the younger wives wore ski sweaters and down vests. They helped with the elaborate tailgate picnics everyone brought, but otherwise stood somewhat aside from the gamboling with their plastic cups full of Chablis. The two colleges have been coed for well over a decade, but the woman grads are not yet old enough for three...
...early hours of Saturday morning six gunmen, clad in black jumpsuits and woolen ski masks, raced up to the Brinks-mat Depot No. 7 in a drab row of industrial warehouses near Heathrow Airport, 15 miles west of London. Without apparent difficulty, they slipped past the searchlights and highly sophisticated alarm system that guard the building. Once inside, the intruders overpowered seven security men, handcuffing five of them together. The other two were less fortunate: the gunmen pistol-whipped one; they slashed through the other's shirt, tickled his stomach with a knife and then poured gasoline over...
...crannies that honeycomb the hills, and in 1942 Tito's future Foreign Minister, Koca Popovic, led the First Proletarian Brigade across a plateau called Freezing Point. Temperatures fell to -40° F, and 200 troops lost either their limbs or lives. This is where the Nordic events, the ski jumping and the biathlon will be held in February...
...matter is being accomplished. While much remains to be done, everything is essentially ready. For the past two years, thousands of workers have been blasting, digging and building heartily. The merriest have been 5,000 teenagers, sweating ten hours a day just a few weeks ago, leveling the ski-jump ramp, laying carpet in the athletes' quarters, working literally for a song at the end of the shift...
Another friend then told him about an opening for general manager at a resort in Waterville Valley, N.H. He moved again, "since I wanted the challenge of working with the general public." His "responsibilities included handling 5000 people at a time, running a ski lift, ticketing, and running a restaurant." After eight years, he had enabled the previously struggling company to turn a profit...