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...small but promising nickel find in the sand and spinifex of Western Australia. It attracted particular attention because of the worldwide nickel shortage, made worse this summer when Canadian nickel miners went on strike. A tiny Australian mining company called Poseidon started the speculative mania late in September. A drill on its 1,100-acre lease in desolate Windarra churned up traces of nickel ore. After the company announced assays of 3.5% nickel, its stock, which had sold earlier in the year for 50? a share, jumped to $35. "In sober fact, all the company has to offer in support...
Marvin began his tour in Houston looking trim and hickory-hard, striding through the airport like a drill sergeant in Dacron. Trailing behind were his large pressagent, his little manager, Meyer Mishkin, and local studio men handing out photographs and toting bags. "Hey!" shouted a cab driver, clapping an arm around Marvin's shoulder. "Where's your horse...
Harvard not only outclassed the Wesleyan squad with individual talent but also moved the ball well using set formations. The basic strategy of these patterns is to move the ball downfield in a series of lateral passes Captains Ralph Harder and Phil Ordway drill the coachless ruggers on these formations each day in practice...
...sense to have long hair in certain situations," he says, "you have two alternatives: you can cut it and wait two years for it to grow back or you can cover it up with a wig. Take a guy in the Army reserve. If he's going into drill for two days, why should he have to change his image for the other 28 days? The sergeants don't realize that his girl won't look at him with short hair." To help remedy this, Woodford bought a lady's wig, trimmed it down...
...donnybrooks during his playing days as a New York Yankee, explained it this way: the boys were sitting around a bar in Detroit hoisting a convivial glass when Dave Boswell, a talented but emotionally erratic pitcher, learned that a coach had reported him for cheating on an exercise drill. Boswell stormed out threatening to get "that squealer." Whereupon the team peacemaker, Outfielder Bob Allison, went outside to calm the raging Boswell. Martin emerged a few moments later and found that Boswell had flattened Allison and kicked him. Then the unfortunate pitcher came at Martin. "I did open my mouth...