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...windfall for Bruce Jordan and Marilyn Abrams, who created the phenomenon. In 1976 Jordan was performing in a Rochester, New York, production of Scherenschnitt (Cutouts, roughly), a psychological study by the Swiss playwright Paul Portner; and two years later, Jordan and Abrams were doing the play in Lake George, New York, "To us," says Abrams, "it cried out to be a comedy." The pair bought the rights (for $50,000) and set to funnying it up. They opened the play in Boston to mixed reviews and a flat box office. "We knew the audience was having a delicious time," Jordan...
Arturo Coruzzo leads two lives. In his workaday world, the 33-year-old Verona bank clerk tries to be the picture of decorum. There was a weekend this month, however, when he went just a bit crazy. Two Saturdays ago, he stood halfway up a Swiss ski slope yelling himself hoarse with cries of ``Forza, Alberto!'' As the object of his cheers cannonaded down the run, Corruzo dashed to the finish line and jumped the fence. Too late. His hero, rushed by a mob of other brandy-fueled fanatics, ran for protection. Was a blurred whoosh-past by Alberto Tomba...
...Tombamaniacs went nuts--further nuts, that is. The din of their air horns sounded like a Swiss national-emergency call. At least half a dozen fan clubs, most of them from the vicinity of their idol's native Bologna, follow him from race to race these days amid the usual shriek packs of star-struck teenage girls. Tomba often gratifies them by performing somersaults at the finish line and, as a seal of success, placing a smooch on his dog, a white husky named, fittingly, Yukon. Is Alberto a god? One supporter arrived in Adelboden prepared: he had recorded what...
...brink of collapse, the President last week invoked his executive authority to grant Mexico $20 billion in loans and loan guarantees as the centerpiece of a coordinated bailout. Following Washington's lead, the International Monetary Fund agreed to provide Mexico with a further $17.8 billion, and the Swiss- based Bank for International Settlements kicked in an additional $10 billion...
...Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama--even from members of his own Socialist Party. Offers of assistance from 60 countries, the U.N. and the World Health Organization poured in, but some were subjectedto endless bureaucratic wrangling. Examples: foreign doctors were rebuffed at first because they did not have Japanese licenses; Swiss sniffer dogs were threatened with quarantine by the Agriculture Ministry. Conditions in the stricken port city, however, are improving, with 18,600 emergency housing units under way, thousands of workmen busily laying new telephone and electric cables and, most cheering of all, the reopening of Kobe's schools. Middle East: Another...