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...pilot usually takes off by leaping from a cliff or dune. He hangs suspended in a harness, and steers by leaning right or left. He may also get aloft behind a motorboat or automobile -a more dangerous technique. Though James Bond used a Rogallo in his latest flick to swoop down on the bad guy, a far more spectacular flight was made recently when Jim Weir, 26, a gardener, and Burke Ewing, a 19-year-old student, both from San Diego, jumped from the top of 10,830-ft. Mount San Jacinto above Palm Springs. Recalls Weir...
...award produced a highly unusual growth rate indeed for Telex-in one fell swoop it nearly tripled the company's total assets. Roger M. Wheeler, 47, the normally quiet, gray-suited chairman of Telex and the man primarily responsible for pressing the first successful antitrust suit ever decided against IBM, was jubilant. "The award is a great thing for us, but it is also a great thing for the industry," said Wheeler. "The customers will ultimately benefit because it will make for better products and better price performance." The company, of course, will not collect its sudden bonanza while...
...find his feet." Around the first turn Turcotte decided the pace was too slow and chirped to his horse, planning to pass a few of his competitors at that point and get into early contention. But while Secretariat was accelerating, the others were slowing down. In one great swoop of the field, Secretariat was in front with still about three-quarters of a mile to run. And there he stayed with the greatest of ease...
...tenor). For 24 seasons (1926-50) at the Met, it was impossible to imagine Wagner without "the Great Dane." He sang in more than 1,000 Wagnerian performances-more than three times the total of any other singer-with no hint of diminution of the robust tenor that could swoop from a splendorous high to a deep, resonant...
...Boston College Eagles swoop into Watson Rink tonight at 7 p.m. in an effort to break the Crimson hockey squad's three game winning streak...