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...home, who still need some, but not 24-hour, nursing care, and who can fend for them selves in a dining room. The planners have not proved very persuasive. Hos pital administrators give lip service to the idea, but little more...
...Last week Steinberg admitted at Leasco's annual meeting that his takeover appetite has grown so big that he would like to swallow Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., the nation's sixth largest commercial bank (assets: $9 billion). Chemical Chairman William S. Renchard has promised to fend off "aggressors" vigorously...
...rawest, roughest kind of rancher, but Ben Hart was that sort of man. Immigrating from South Dakota in the early 1900s, he married a half-breed of Amerindian-Scotch parentage and fathered six boys as tough as he. They tended their herds, sleeping in tree platforms at night to fend off attacks by pumas, and they carried water in buckets for the shade trees they planted. Before Hart died in 1961, they put together a spread of 185,000 leased acres, with buildings and ranch houses worth $200,000. Hart and his sons never gave up U.S. citizenship...
Mild Advantages. The causes of left-handedness remain obscure. Some authorities believe that environment plays a significant role in the child's choice of handedness, while others maintain that heredity is all. Little is known about the problem beyond the fact that the left-hander must learn to fend for himself in a world that seldom pays any heed to his special needs. Production lines grind out an endless assortment of tools and equipment designed solely for the righthander, with only occasional exceptions for lefty. Left-handed golf clubs can be found, but usually they must be specially ordered...
...explain anything to you,' she said, and walked quickly back to a tree." Willingly suspending her disbelief, the girl was led off towards the highway by the man. He said they would go on a journey together. She, being impressionable, but not stupid, thought to fend him off with a stock plagiarism, "You look about as much like my grandmother as Calvin Coolidge looks like the MGM lion." He, cleverly, ignored her. She, feeling somewhat naked, had no choice but to go with him. The idea is in the mood. They spoke. Albion Moonlight...