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...vehicles. Half of the country's steelworkers and almost two-thirds of the workers on the billion dollar Snowy Mountains hydroelectric irrigation complex in New South Wales are, as fellow union members call them, "new blokes." Although some have slowed their work to the notorious prewar "Australian crawl," the overall impact of ambitious immigrants has been to force the Old Australians to hump harder. Eager, gifted immigrant children are grabbing top honors in Melbourne and Adelaide high schools. In Queensland, Italians have become a major factor in the sugar-cane industry. Two Dutch immigrants are marketing a new plastic...
Varsity captain Keyes consistently ruined Williams' offensive plans. The Eph goalie, Bob Adams, periodically admonished his teammates to "get past the big guy if you have to crawl over him," but Keyes stopped everything. Early in the third quarter he came staggering out of a collision near the Crimson goal, holding both hands to his head and obviously badly dazed. Nevertheless, he stayed in the game...
...Lehman Bros., the famed Manhattan international banking house. Because the Lehmans are Jews, Governor Patterson's dealings aroused Alabama's anti-Semites. In June, Patterson spoke to the state legislature, expressed sentiments that seemed heresy to Alabama's rabid segregationists. Said he: "We cannot afford to crawl back into a hole as far as public education is concerned." On a trip to Washington, Patterson met Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, whom he admired. Patterson promptly spoke up in favor of Catholic Jack Kennedy's presidential candidacy (TIME, July...
Reluctantly the Russians gave way, allowed Rickover to crawl all over the Lenin (which he pronounced "a creditable job"). As the terrible-tempered admiral finally prepared to leave, a Russian official asked him if he was satisfied. "No," said Hyman Rickover. "I am pleased, but I am never satisfied...
...black Dauphine-Gordini headed towards Fontainebleau, he jammed on the brakes on a deserted stretch of the road and pulled out his pistol. Dominique jumped out of the car as Bill started firing-five shots in all. Hit, Dominique clawed at the tar roadway in her frenzy to crawl away, was still writhing when Bill calmly dumped a can of oil over her and set her on fire. As he started back to Paris and the apartment of his "official mistress," who was to provide him with an alibi, he could see the flames dancing in his rear-view mirror...