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...women's giant slalom, the crisp and speedy skill that won at Oslo for U.S. Housewife Andrea Mead Lawrence was scarcely in evidence. Andy Lawrence wound up in a tie for fourth. Gold medal winner: Germany's chubby Ossi Reichert. CJ Finnish Forest Ranger Veikko Haku-linen won the 3O-kilometer (18 miles, 1,125 yards) cross-country skiing championship, finished in front of Sweden's Six-ten Jernberg and a strong Russian squad that took every place from third to sixth. By week's end unofficial team scores put Russia's first Winter Olympics...
...Marshall A. Robinson Dartmouth's Professor Herbert C. Morton and Dr. James D. Calderwood of Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, Calif. The book propounds no startling new theories, is intended only as a primer on the U.S. system. It covers the economy from consumer demand to unions, uses crisp, know-it-yourself language to unravel technical gobbledygook, e.g., "multiplier principle," "countervailing power...
...arisen. A "Gold Coast" of California-style villas has sprung up north of Tel Aviv, where the wives of the new $50,000-a-year men vie in entertaining ambassadors or ministers at lavish dinner parties. Bustling crowds, looking like anything but refugees from East European ghettos in their crisp frocks or open-necked, short-sleeved shirts tucked into belted slacks, hurry through the streets of Tel Aviv and Haifa, bent on marketing by day, on moviegoing by night (Israel's per capita cinema attendance is the world's highest). Over their cheesecake and Nescafé, young apartment...
...mellow beat of wooden clogs on pavement, the clatter of mah-jongg pieces, the wail of radios tuned to Chinese opera, the brays of hawkers and cries of countless babies, all insist on its Chineseness-but the eye is reminded, by the flap of the Union Jack and the crisp gesture of a traffic cop, that here, as nowhere else in Asia, British "law and order" yet prevail...
...their field and ministers what a journalist can do in theirs. He has had his share of globetrotting; his reports on Europe and other matters in LIFE, the Saturday Review and other magazines made him known to many readers who never even see a copy of the Century. His crisp, forceful editorials, his continued analysis of U.S. Protestantism have wielded potent influence, notably on the ecumenical movement that he championed...