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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father was made a noble, but he saw little of them. His days were spent with monkish tutors, in learning the Tantric texts of Lamaism and the complex religious ceremonials. At night he went to sleep in the enormous, fortresslike Potala, and could hear the palace gates close harshly and the ringing shouts of the watchmen as they marched through the long, twisting corridors. Without playmates or attending parents, the Dalai Lama matured early, and at 14 he visited Lhasa's great monasteries of Drepung and Sera to engage in religious disputation with their learned abbots. This...
...relentlessly followed the mob. With a fellow Trib reporter, he crouched for days in a car near Chicago's taxicab union headquarters, discovered-by the simple reportorial expedient of training binoculars on the visitors, and now and then riding a city bus past the building for a close-in gander-that it was crawling with thugs, hoods and hired guns. Their nine-part expose mercilessly pinned Joey Glimco as the leader of this unsavory band, nominated Glimco for repeated uncommunicative appearances before federal rackets investigators. To this day Glimco spits at Smith whenever the two meet...
...second eight, now a length slower than the first will race this morning. Coolidge, stressing the impossibility of making any close prediction about a Freshman race, does feel that the lightweights can hope for "a good showing...
...concert opened with the Faithful Shepherd Suite of Handel-Beecham, and this noble music was generally well played. The audience was highly enthusiastic, and, at the close of the concert, joined with the orchestra in giving Mr. Poto a standing ovation...
...could make the difference is Joel Landau. The Crimson ace is a prohibitive favorite in both hurdle races, and he could add vital points in the dashes. It is too early in the season to ask a performer to attempt a quadruple. If the meet is close, though, coach Bill McCurdy may call on Landau for a four event effort, and Landau has the ability and determination to carry...