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...cable down the north wall. After three agonizing hours, he managed to bring back Corti. But storms kept rescuers from reaching Longhi. When the observers below last saw him alive through the clouds, he was "clearly visible in his fire-engine red tricot, his face turned upward to the skies, his arms outstretched as though asking the heavens for a miracle." In the dark of the night he was swept from his perch and died entangled in his rope against the face of the cliff...
...lined, cornfield face and greying locks that spiral above him like a halo run amok. He speaks, and the words emerge in a soft, sepulchral baritone. They undulate in measured phrases, expire in breathless wisps. He fills his lungs and blows word-rings like smoke. The sentences curl upward. They chase each other around the room in dreamy images of Steamboat Gothic. Now he conjures moods of mirth, now of sorrow. He rolls his bright blue eyes heavenward. In funereal tones, he paraphrases the Bible (" 'Lord, they would stone me . . .'") and church bells peal. "Motherhood." he whispers...
...Surf, a onetime adult nightclub just outside Boston, decided to pitch for the Coke-swigging crowd, now attracts upward of 1,000 teenagers, who pay about $1 a head to gyrate to the emoting of Fabian, Frankie Avalon or Bobby Darin. In Cape Coral, Fla., a $50,000 clubhouse is being readied for the autumn opening of the nation's first teen-age key club. Only key-carrying teen-agers (19 is the absolute age limit) will be admitted, and violators of the club's code-no smoking, no drinking, lots of pingpong and billiards-will have...
Russia's Valery Brumel danced a little jig to loosen his leg muscles. He lifted his left hand in a crisp salute-a signal that he was ready. Suddenly he was galloping violently toward the pit. His left foot slammed into the ground and his body hurtled upward-left arm tucked against his chest, right leg thrust high. He barely grazed the crossbar; then he was clear and falling, the bar quivering behind him. The jump measured 7 ft. 5 in., a new world's record. And as Brumel bounced joyfully from the sawdust pit, 81,000 people...
...boardinghouse or walk-up flat, clinging to the places they have known, while the winters grow colder and old friends fewer. Often they feel increasingly isolated and rejected as the visits from children become rarer-seeing the doctor more and more often, penny-pinching their fixed income against the upward-creeping cost of living, and trying to keep something by against the high cost of dying...