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...platform diving, long the private preserve of U.S. athletes, some all-but-unbeatable competition came from an unexpected source. Time after time a Russian woman and a Hungarian man among the seven judges automatically gave lowest marks on every dive to Gary Tobian and Dick Connor of the U.S. and the highest marks to Russian divers. Even so, Tobian climbed to the platform for his last dive, nursing a slight lead over Mexico's classy Joaquin Capilla. Tobian flipped through a running double-twisting for ward one-and-a-half somersault with such consummate grace that his detractors could...
...Kikuyu elders at the trial pointed out, and the other two agreed. "Kimathi did not come out of the forest as a man of peace," they said, making the court's verdict of guilty unanimous. "The witnesses lie," sneered Dedan Kimathi, but Chief Justice Sir Kenneth O'Connor thought not. His sentence: Kimathi to be hung by the neck until dead. As an ambulance carried Kimathi away from the courthouse, a crowd of impassive Kikuyu natives watched in stony silence...
...exhibits her peculiar dry but throaty tone in some distinctly modern arrangements. The second (Atlantic 1240) is almost exactly the opposite--slow melancholy songs with lush orchestrations by Ralph Burns. While the latter record may become the more popular, the dry upbeat quality of the former is Chris Connor's real contribution to modern jazz. Perhaps the best introduction to her varied gifts is in Bethlehem '56, which collects the best songs from her first three records...
...couplings for plain-end pipes, had $5,800,000 in sales. Mallon built up Dresser into a company that could serve the entire gas and oil industry. In 1937 Dresser bought its first subsidiary company, Clark Bros, (angle compressors), and also got its vice president, John B. O'Connor, in the bargain. Three years later Dresser added centrifugal pumps to its growing list of products with the acquisition of Pacific Pumps...
...helped them grow bigger in their fields. As a result of its successful diversification and growth, Dresser estimates earnings will be $7.90 a share in the fiscal year ending Oct. 31 v. $5.04 in the previous year. With such a sprawling operation, ubiquitous President John B. O'Connor will have little opportunity to keep his feet on the ground. Said O'Connor last week: "I'll continue to spend most of my time in an airplane. You can't run this kind of company from a swivel chair in Dallas...