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...meaty shoulder against highway patrolmen, trying to force his way past. Ruddy-faced Marshal McShane, 53, is a formidable man. He won the Golden Gloves welterweight championship of New York City back in 1930, and he has since added many pounds of solid flesh. He is also a brave man who won several citations for heroism during his years as a New York cop. But he was outnumbered 20 to 1 by the troopers, some of them pretty husky too, and his scufflings with them were utterly futile, merely adding a dash of absurdity to the proceedings...
...from Squaresville. The company's 1963 line marks a brave attempt to change young minds. What Romney did for the Rambler was to build a loyal following to whom its unchanging, old-fashioned looks seemed a comfortable complement to economy and leonine performance. But he and others at AMC began to worry that this philosophy appealed almost exclusively to the 40-and-over age group, and that most younger buyers thought the Rambler was from Squaresville...
...Brave New Band. Del Rosario himself is a sort of walking five-year plan. In addition to running Filoil Refinery Corp., he is president of Filoil Marketing, which started with one service station in 1960, now has 200. Del Rosario is president of International Electric Appliance Co.. Inc., organized two months ago to assemble General Electric appliances. He is chairman of Del Rosario Brothers Industries, which has a majority interest in the appliance company and in a pioneering credit company (of which he is president). He is also president of Philippine Investment-Management Consultants, Inc.. which...
...sound words make when dropped at random, have largely ignored poetry's old didactic chore: refining and explaining experience. The occasional poet who addresses man's need to know the lessons poetry alone can teach (Robert Lowell, for example) has seemed remarkably clear-perhaps even brave. Such a poet is Anthony Ostroff, whose first volume is as visionary as it is precise...
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are off-the-beaten-trail westerns about men who seek the brotherhood of man in the motherhood of nature...