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Beneath the cornfields of an Indian pueblo, diligent diggers last week worked to uncover a half-forgotten chapter of U.S. history. Led by Professor Florence Ellis of the University of New Mexico, 60 student archaeologists are bringing to light the long lost site of San Gabriel de Yunque, first capital...
FAMILY But despite his deceptively casual manner, wartime R.A.F. Officer Maudling was one of the brightest and most diligent of the "backroom boys" who helped to liberalize Tory policy in the early 1950s.
A scant hour after winging into Washington from South Dakota, Lawyer Joseph H. Botfum, 58-was sworn in on the Senate floor, replacing the late Republican Senator Francis Case. The diligent Dakotan helped found his state's first Young Republicans' chapter in 1934 and got Governor Archie Gubbrud...
From Point to Point. Harkins had long been addicted to horses, and he joined the Massachusetts National Guard when he discovered that he could get free rides in the cavalry troop. This led to diligent cramming for West Point, where he played hockey and polo and graduated a respectable 134th...
Every weekday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., James Tully Beatty works as a claims adjuster for the Allstate Insurance Co. in Los Angeles. But diligent and deliberate though he is, Beatty is not exactly a model employee: for four hours a day, seven days a week, he moonlights. He...