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Within minutes, a 740 m.p.h. Czechoslovak air force MIG 17 was on his tail. When the pilot fired a poorly aimed cannon burst, Bezak turned and put the Zlin into a steep 4,000-ft. dive. As G forces slapped his sons against the cockpit canopy, his wife Marie, 27, shouted, "It's all up! We'd better go back." Instead, Bezak watched as the MIG frantically circled to make another firing run, and banked the plane as if he were obeying the air force pilot's unmistakable signal to return. Suddenly, Bezak turned again and slipped...
...above the minimum requirements for soccer) and 116 yds, long (only 4 yds. below the maximum soccer standard). It seems that an artificial playing field has roughly the topography of a turtle back to promote drainage. With the practice game layout, goalies found themselves running uphill at a steep angle...
...National Chairman under John F. Kennedy, the latest Harris poll pegs Jackson's recognition factor at only 41%. Thus his decision to follow his formal declaration with a $60,000 half-hour of prime-time national television to convey his message directly to the electorate. It is a steep price for a frugal man whose campaign is going...
...setting sets the mood. Richard Sylbert has devised a marvelous high-rise apartment in full view of-what else?-another highrise. The rent is just as steep, but the fixtures are gimcrack, the partitions are parchment, and the terrace looks like a handy suicide perch. The acoustics are superb. Says a sleepless Mel: "Two-thirty in the morning. I can hear the subway in here better than I can hear it in the subway...
...favored joining the Common Market, according to the latest Louis Harris poll, while 49% were opposed. Some anti-Marketeers were fearful of what Wilson called "blackleg labor" from the Continent at a time of 3.9% unemployment, high by British standards. Housewives were worried that the Common Market's steep agricultural tariffs would send food prices soaring. British fishermen, distressed by rules that open the waters of one nation to the trawlers of all, recently held a sail-in off Brighton, displaying banners that read SAVE OUR SOLES...