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...camp at the Siglo Veinte (20th Century) tin mine, 12,000 feet high in the Bolivian Andes, Mrs. Elena O'Connor was preparing lunch. Her husband Tom, a Pasadena, Calif, engineer employed at the Patiño-owned mine, was visiting another U.S. engineer next door. Through her window Mrs. O'Connor saw 15 Indian miners rush to the neighbor's house and kick in the door. Minutes later the Indians came out dragging the two Americans, whose faces were blotched with blood...
Grosset's President John O'Connor took on the job of running Wonder Books himself. O'Connor has always been a man with a sharp eye for selling. As vice president of Chicago's Quarrie Corp., he helped sell a million copies of the Book of Knowledge. At Grosset, it was he who started Bantam Books. O'Connor thinks that the potential market for Wonder Books (which have hard, washable-plastic covers) is 100 million copies. To cash in on it, he expects to increase the list of 16 titles (including Mother Goose, Peter Rabbit...
...Engineers in the opening period temporarily baffled the varsity and accounted for a 5 to 4 edge briefly enjoyed by MIT. But in the second and third periods the Crimson outskated, outpassed, outshot, and outwitted MIT, scored nine goals and would have scored more had not Scott Connor played so well in the Tech goal. Connor had an unofficial total of 42 saves...
...Preston was top scorer for the Crimson and played his best game since the BU contest. In the second period, he beat Tiger goalie Bob O'Connor on a beautiful backhand shot. Earlier he had popped in another on a pass from Dave...
...Thomas' achievement seemed less impressive to them than it seems now, and the fact that Chickamauga was a Confederate victory obscured the brilliance of his own handling of his troops. Both biographers tell the story of the battle in great detail, and both tell it well. O'Connor is a more ardent partisan of Thomas than Cleaves, and heaps more scorn on the other generals...