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...WHAT NEXT! What next!" Austin was jumping up and down in destructive glee, a two-inch, 27 ounce steel chrome sizing ball oscillating dangerously in his sweaty palm. All around him in a happy cornucopia of wanton destruction lay the mangled, twisted remains of a tin of cookies, a beer can, a memo board, a squash racket, a small toaster oven and the Sunday Times...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Study Breaking | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

...steel sizing ball which had become our weapon was the inexplicable product of a government surplus catalogue. Austin, a veteran consumer of the obscure, has an obsession for buying anything advertised with exclamation points--"Two-inch diameter! 27 ounces!" After three intense hours of academic grundgework--a feat of concentration made more impressive by the blaring conditions forced on us by a merciless stereo--Dave had conceived of a use for the Steel Chrome Sizing Ball. "Boys," he had said, "it's time to relax...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Study Breaking | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

...carpet, battered and bruised by forces beyond its comprehension, awaited the next impact of our mini-wrecking ball. Tiny punctures in its rayon skin were mute testimonials to the kinetic fusion of a warped student wielding two pounds of round, steel government surplus...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Study Breaking | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

DAVE, THE MOST grotesquely warped of our trio, made a grab for the steel ball and disappeared down the hallway, yelling something about Bowling for Doorknobs. Austin and I exchanged glances of abject terror. We knew about Dave's fetish for doors. One door in particular. "Daaaaaaaaave...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Study Breaking | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

...just $100,000, less than the price of an average single-family house, Investor Lloyd Lubensky managed to buy a 34.2% controlling interest in the seventh largest U.S. steel company, Wheeling-Pittsburgh, according to papers filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The 1.7 million shares he acquired had a market value of $13.5 million on the day he paid the $100,000 for them, Dec. 31. Lubensky bought the stock for the lower price from a friend, Wheeling Chairman Allen Paulson, who resigned a week later. Paulson apparently intends to use the virtual giveaway as an income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEALS: Big Steel for Small Change | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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