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...suddenly waved off the course to avoid a collision with a fallen skier. He dodged the skier all right-and flew off the headwall "like an airplane." Recalls Zimmermann: "I said to myself, 'Egon, that's the end-you're going to break every bone in your body.' I was lucky. I got off with strained ligaments and twelve days on crutches...
...Cuba remains the bone in the U.S. throat. The U.S. is committed to a relatively inactive policy of trying to isolate Castro from foreign trade. The embargo is not working perfectly by any means, for Britain recently made a trade deal with the Communist dictator. And last week while Castro was in Moscow, a new Soviet-Cuban trade agreement was announced. In return for the favor, Castro promised to sign the atomic test ban treaty. All the while, he continues to try to export his revolution to other Latin American countries...
...parents were separated when he was twelve. His father was a "heavy drinker"; his mother was committed to a mental hospital. In brawls, he twice received severe head injuries, once from a pistol handle. He lost the tip of his left index finger after somebody bit it to the bone. "He thinks he's tough," said Bromberg. "He is a fighter-geared to attack all his life." But he is also subject to "basic emotional instability so severe that occasionally he breaks out crying for no apparent reason...
...sets the tone of Producer-Director Stanley Kubrick's irreverent spectacular about nuclear war. The film is an outrageously brilliant satire-the most original American comedy in years and at the same time a supersonic thriller that should have audiences chomping their fingernails right down to the funny bone...
Armour in recent years has pushed both modernization and diversification to make use of almost everything in an animal but its squeal. Most of its processes, from skinning to tinning, are now controlled by buttons, and new byproducts have led Armour in promising directions. From bone meal, it has moved strongly into all types of fertilizer. Tentative steps into Pharmaceuticals with pepsin from hog stomachs have led to a line of non-meat products that includes tranquilizers and cosmetics. Excursions into soapmaking to utilize fatty acids produced Dial soap, got Armour so interested in the grocery end that...