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...half-bull, called the Minotaur. Either by lot or insistence, Theseus becomes one of the seven youths and sets sail for Crete. There he wins the love of Ariadne, a Cretan princess, who gives him a magic sword with which to kill the Minotaur and a spool of cord with which to thread his way back out of the maze. On the way home to Athens, Theseus puzzlingly abandons Ariadne on the island of Naxos. He also fails to change the ship's sails from black to white, so that his father, King Aigeus, thinking Theseus dead, plunges heartbroken...
There were young men in cotton cord suits, belt-buckled and buttoned and pale blue starched; there were sweat-shirt and tennis-shoe esthetes and the wearily omniscient...
Citation: "Noted throughout his career for undertaking and solving problems deemed insolvable by many. . . " Chapman College Leslie LeRoy Irvin, inventor of the rip-cord-opened parachute LL.D...
Last week, in the town where Pat Mc-Carran fell dead after making a speech, Cordmen and Nevada's remaining anti-Cord Democrats fought for control of McCarran's party. The anti-Cords won a few skirmishes. But at convention's close, Cord's men were in command. They had won majority control of the Democratic state central committee; rammed through was a platform that clearly mirrored Cord's position on such issues as gambling (for relaxed laws), foreign aid (for less) and aid to education (for more). What most of the delegates wanted...
Potbellied Boat. When he was a five-year-old kid in Long Branch, N.J., Tom Gifford's father had to tie him up with sash cord to keep him from going fishing. "There wasn't a seafaring man in the family," he recalls, "and I collected blisters on my bottom because I wouldn't stay away from the water." After a stretch in the Navy during World War I, "Mom wanted me to be President and the old man wanted me to be an admiral. Me, I wanted to be a charter boatman. I bought a backyard...