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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...