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...Steep Descent. The man who can put medieval scholasticism into such comfortable modern dress was born in Belfast, Ireland, where his grandfather, an itinerant Welsh boilermaker-turned-shipbuilder, had settled. At the age of twelve, young...
...Down the steep cobbled streets of La Paz, coca-chewing Indians trotted under huge packs of bundled alpaca hides. In the market sun, Indian women in outlandish derby hats and bright-colored skirts haggled over little piles of shelled corn. It was winter, the good time in the Andes. The Indians (who comprise two-thirds of all Bolivians) were not even aware that political storms threatened the peace...
...local morning papers, Hearst's Examiner and the Los Angeles Times, the invasion posed no grave threat. But readers who were prepared to pay the steep prices (25? a day, 50? Sundays, $8.50 a month) could now get "All the News That's Fit to Print" on the day when it was news. Next move planned by the Times, which flies 12,000 copies a day to 28 Eastern and Midwestern U.S. cities: air delivery all along the West Coast, and possibly home delivery...
...steep hill outside Rouen, 80 miles from the finish, Robic pumped his way ahead. A few hours later, he zoomed victoriously across the finish line in Paris' Pare des Princes, raising both hands over his head in a risky gesture to the glory of France. Then he rushed into the arms of his pretty brunette wife, whom he had married three days before the race began. His time: 148 hours, 11 minutes, 25 seconds. His prize: 500,000 francs ($4,197.50) and a probable three or four million francs more in future exhibitions and endorsements...
...rent-control bill was scarcely law before landlords pounced. Many a hotel promptly changed its permanent guests to steep transient rates. In Atlanta, one hotel slipped notices under the door at midnight June 30, ordering long-term tenants to vacate by midnight July 1 unless they paid by the day. Typical rate: a single room was upped from $82.50 a month to $7.50 a day ($225 a month...