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...most radical state, Hancock was easily elected President of the Congress (after his predecessor, Peyton Randolph, decided to return to Virginia). Although the job involves mostly paper work, Hancock has often served skillfully in mediating differences among the delegations. With similar skill, he conducted a long and arduous courtship of the very social Dorothy Quincy, whom he married last August during the congressional recess...
...Western Sail Club. Like Colas's ship, the quadrennial race has grown monstrously since Sir Francis Chichester beat out four competitors in his 39-ft. boat in 1960. In this year's race, 125 entries, including ten Americans and four women, set sail June 5 on the arduous course...
Golda Meir, LL.D. From your long and arduous career we learn again the meaning of heroism...
...University announced its selection of masters for Mather and North Houses this week, ending an uneventful search process that sharply contrasts with the arduous months spent unearthing a master for Lowell House last year...
...house or open a small business in their villages--or often enough, simply to survive where unemployment ranges from 20 to 50 per cent. Known in West Germany as gastarbeiter (guestworkers), and in France as hommes deracines (rootless men), these workers are concentrated in the worst paid, most arduous and most hazardous jobs. As of 1972, migrant workers made up 10 per cent of the work force in industrial western Europe, and much larger proportions in specific industries. It is migrants who man the assembly lines at Renault and Volvo, who dig the tunnels underneath Geneva, who make asbestos...