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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When his first son Yoshimitsu was born, Farmer Koji Matsuzaka of Shinshushinmachi, a small mountain town 160 miles northwest of Tokyo, boasted: "He will grow up to be a giant." The proud father did not know how close his prophecy would come to the truth. By the time Yoshimitsu entered senior high at 16, he towered 6 ft. 7 in. At this time he began to have blinding headaches and tired so easily that he spent most of his time lying at home on a tatami. School doctors diagnosed Yoshimitsu's trouble as a hormone imbalance, recommended that...
...international matches. Sceptre's African mahogany planking, her steel and oak frames and her 20-ton keel were skillfully transformed into a racing yacht under such rigid security that outsiders are still uncertain about all her essential statistics. But her 44 ft. on the waterline come close to the dimensions of all the cup defenders; so does her 12-ft. beam and her 70 ft. of overall length. Her sails are of Terylene (British equivalent of Dacron), and her running rigging is of the same material (with each rope dyed according to a quick-handling color code-blue, green...
...nodded. To satisfy incredulous observers in the operating theater, Marmer repeated the routine, got the same responses. The surgeon widened the valve and sewed up the girl's heart. Marmer told her to go back to sleep. She slept soundly during the hour or more needed to close the gaping wound on both sides of her chest...
...exception. "Within six months to a year," he says, "I'll stem the flow of blood." Apparently many Penn-Texas stockholders think he can do it. Penn-Texas stock, which plummeted during Silberstein's reign from $22.87 to $2.87 a share, last week gained $2.75 to close...
Sweetness & Lightning. In Pensacola, Fla., when a teen-age boy grabbed the purse of Equillar Adams, 65, she lit out after him, was so close on his heels after three blocks that he threw down the purse to avoid capture...