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...explosive; it can be bumped and jostled without much danger. But old dynamite deteriorates, undergoing chemical changes that turn it into highly volatile nitroglycerin, which could explode at the slightest jiggle. Michelle's dynamite was old, deteriorated and dangerous. She was obviously unaware of this fact as she sped toward New York. So were the FBI agents who tailed her, constantly radioing news of her progress to other law-enforcement men along the way. Luckily, Michelle got to New York early on the morning of Feb. 16 without being blown to smithereens; she cached the dynamite in a vacant...
Another future leader of the world chose a less costly method. He doodled away in his notebook for three hours at his morning exam, then sped back to his room where he recorded the correct answers in another booklet. At 6 p.m. he sneaked back into the exam room with the booklet, stepped on it repeatedly, and left it on the floor for the janitor to find and return to the graders...
Last week Iacocca got his reward. Piling his personal gear into a bright red Mustang, he sped the half-mile from his office to corporate headquarters in Dearborn, where he moved into the vacant office of group vice president, Iacocca, an executive noted for his hard salesmanship, will not only be in charge of all Ford cars and trucks -accounting for 80% of the company's sales-but of Ford of Canada and Lincoln-Mercury...
Checking the Checker. Across the finish line he sped, slowing almost to a stop when an official gave him the checkered flag of victory. In the pits, Chapman screamed and waved a sign with a big number 1 on it. The official had goofed: Clark still had a lap to go, and Surtees was closing in. Furious. Jimmy stomped down the throttle; the Lotus snarled around the track once more, coasted into the pits-the winner by a comfortable 31 sec. "Imagine," sighed an awed South African fan, "what Clark could do if he were feeling...
...shipped across the Atlantic from Britain each year-in railroad cars. The British load their spirits onto a new kind of U.S. freight car called the Flexi-Van, which is hauled to port by truck, loaded onto a ship, fitted with train wheels in the U.S. and sped to its destination over the rails. Thanks to such innovations, U.S. railroads are not only hauling merchandise directly from such countries as Japan, Egypt and Italy, but also carrying a broad range of domestic goods-from candy to sewing machines-that they lost many years ago to other forms of transportation. Result...