Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beefed-up steel "skeleton," Bibbia was running down the ice-slick Cresta sled run. His objective: a descent fast enough to win him the Cresta sledders' Carder Cup. Face low in the biting wind, his nose scant inches from the ice, Bibbia scudded into Curzon, the first turn on the twisting chute. The special, spike-toed Cresta shoes that were his only brakes were clear of the glass-hard groove as he slid along, and by the time he hit the straightaway at Junction, dropping as much as one foot for every three he covered, Bibbia was close...
...Records. When it came his turn last week, Connor, 38, and now an aviation executive, had to better all his past speeds to catch Bibbia. Calmly he watched a procession of other competitors fly into trouble at Shuttlecock. One shot over the lip of the turn and disappeared in the trailside snow. "He's waving to show that at least one arm is not broken," was the announcer's casual comment. Then Connor slammed onto his skeleton...
...signatures and the backing of 43 groups, mostly Protestant, the Action Committee for Freedom of Religious, Expression formally asked the Federal Communications Commission for a public hearing to challenge WGN's right to a license. Said the petition: "Those to whom the film is distasteful may turn it off, but unfortunately, those who want to see it cannot turn it on. The issue is one of freedom...
...hung a show of his new paintings in which nearly every canvas was centered around an all-too-recognizable bottle, beaker, carafe or cognac glass. What had the artists buzzing was why Ferren had hit on the bottle, and what had hit him hard enough to make him turn his back on the abstractionists' decade of painting for paint's sake...
...These holdings spread-eagle over a fantastic corporate maze. Getty Oil Co. owns 14% of Tidewater. It also holds 42% of Mission Development Co., which in turn owns 47% of Tidewater. And Getty Oil owns 47% of the separate Mission Corp., which itself owns 10% of Mission Development Corp. and 3½% of Tidewater...