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...three miles, but his most important weapon is a reserve of speed-a big burst that he can call on at will anytime during a race. Unlike Delany, Beatty runs against the clock; his sense of timing is so precise that he needs little prompting. Now at peak condition, Beatty will concentrate on the mile this summer, but he plans an eventual assault on every world record from 1,500 meters to 5,000 meters. He has one problem: he is injury prone. "I'm always getting hurt," says Beatty. "I've never been able to stay...
...weeks it seemed as if he might get it, especially after the Soviet Union released two imprisoned U.S. RB-47 flyers. But the Kremlin soon set about a round of troublemaking that challenged the U.S. from Laos to Berlin. Tension reached its peak with the erection of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Union's resumption of nuclear testing on a monster scale. It looked as if President Kennedy's flinty remark to a flinty Khrushchev at Vienna-"It's going to be a cold winter"-would prove all too true. But last week, after long months...
When will the market peak out and start the plunge that signals a coming recession? Many analysts expect a big dip within a year. Most pessimistic is Alan Greenspan of Townsend-Greenspan, who says: "The peak of the bull market will be in the early spring, or at the latest by midyear." Most optimistic is Edson Gould, partner in Arthur Wiesenberger & Co., who believes the Dow-Jones index may reach 953 before a major downturn. "I expect this market to go on for most of 1962," says he. "If the bull market is over much sooner, it will...
...brink of Glacier 511, below the peak of Peru's highest (22,205 ft.) mountain, a block of ice the size of two Empire State Buildings had broken loose with an explosive crack and plunged down the mountainside into a funnel-like canyon above a cluster of eight villages around Ranrahirca (pop. 2,456, according to last July's census). As it tumbled, the ice mass smashed into house-sized chunks, knocked loose millions of tons of boulders and mud, and grew into one of the endless huaycos (landslides) that make life on Peru...
...theatrical opera tells the story of Salvatore, a shabby, greying voice teacher who falls in love with Formica, a curvy voice student. Later, in a fit of jealousy. Salvatore strangles Formica at the peak of a coloratura run. In prison, the murderer's only companion is a queen ant that has flown in the window, and Salvatore comes to believe that the ant is his dead beloved...