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...many heroes at the 1968 Win ter Olympics, the man who stands above all is a moody, onetime consumptive who complains of a nervous stomach and insomnia, and likes to talk in par ables. "When I was a child," says Jean-Claude Killy, 24, who last week swept three gold medals in Alpine skiing, "I had a friend named Gérard d'Agallier...
Kahn's solution is a pavilion roofed over with vaults. Visitors will first en ter a reception area, then pass under an arcade to the permanent collection, which will be composed initially of only 100 choice objects. The exterior walls of the museum will be solid for security reasons, but Kahn has made sure the interior will be light and airy. He picked the barrel-vault roof not for its classical associations but because of its structural strength. Such vaults can easily span 100 ft. between supports, allowing museum spaces to be open and flexible...
...Independent, he stood up for 22 consecutive hours to filibus- ter against the Eisenhower Administration's policy on coastal oil reserves, which Morse considered a great give-away of public resources. Eisenhower's program was defeated...
...Mafia. While police doubt any connection between the murders of Car ter and Superspade Thomas, many hippies believe that Thomas was killed by Mafia mobsters who wanted to eliminate competition. Thomas had a highly successful drug dealership, was on his way to make a $40,000 pickup when he disappeared. Hippies also think that the syndicate is tipping the narcotics squad on small pushers in order to drive them out of the psychedelic market. However, Matthew O'Connor, head of the state's narcotics enforcement squad in San Francisco, says flatly: "Neither the Mafia nor any other syndicate...
...designed to increase her speed to windward besides making her more maneuverable. A second innovation is her skeg, or "kicker," an extension of the keel that is supposed to cut down wave turbulence and make her faster yet. But all that is underwater. What shows above the wa ter line is pretty radical too: a broken-nosed bow, a titanium-tipped mast, a $22,000 sail inventory that includes a 2,200-sq.-ft. nylon spinnaker that weighs barely 15.8 Ibs.-plus the most of Bus Mosbacher, but only bits of anybody else...