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Souvanna Phouma, 68, a nephew of Laos' longtime (1904-1959) King Sisavang Vong, lacks Sihanouk's brash style Nonetheless, he performs with skill. A cultivated, retiring figure who looks and acts like a country gentleman, Souvanna has four times taken on the unenviable job of leading a government that is split between the Communist left, Neutralist middle and Royalist right...
Harvard w?, its true taking 17 of 27 matches. But at one point the Harvards found themselves down in hours, 8-7, and their own fencers looking like men trying to brash their teeth in (??) Cetrulo, he of the mighty sabre off the bench to poke and (??) a poor Trinity (??) touches to one, whereupon Keller, resembling a surgeon who didn't very much like his patient, cut up a victim five to zip. Thus inspired. Harvard's lesser lights finally quit puffing like fat men chasing a bus and got a little more art in their lunges...
...income of $15.3 million.) Lately, as Cornfeld's success has led dozens of other mutual funds to incorporate "offshore," the tax-dodging criticism has lost much of its sting. Last June, I.O.S. quietly shifted its legal domicile to Canada. European bankers who once sneered at Cornfeld's brash ways have lately begun to copy his sales methods and solicit his business...
...processing operations, he has built the company into a business with assets of $400 million. When Steinberg, a tall and portly man, announced last summer that he intended to make a $60 million bid for the London scientific publishing house of Pergamon Press Ltd., Britons viewed him as a brash Yankee millionaire-one of those action sculptors who hammer out free-form conglomerates. This impression was fortified by Leasco's on-again, off-again tactics. After withdrawing the offer in a falling-out with Pergamon's chairman, Robert Maxwell, with whom he had originally got on well, Steinberg...
...Baltimore to play the infield for the old Orioles. He was small (5 ft. 6½ in.), young (18), and a country boy from upstate New York. At that time, the basis of baseball strategy was simply to hit the ball as far as possible. Young McGraw was brash enough and bright enough to see that the game should be infinitely more complex than that, and soon he was all but running the team. By 1894, Oriole baseball flourished as "a. combination of hostility, imagination, speed and piracy...