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...maintain a league lead of 95 points over Chamberlain, who had played in 8 fewer games. Sighed Twyman: "My legs feel like a couple of boards, just enough spring left to bounce into bed." Sinking shots from the outside has never come easily for Twyman. Son of a foreman in a Pittsburgh steel plant, he suffered through an adolescence so gawky that he did not make the Central Catholic High School team until his senior year...
...acre Washington Sugar Central, the entire destinies of 4,000 co-op farmers are controlled by a 23-year-old ex-schoolteacher; so far, he has concentrated on sewing lessons for young girls, close-order drill for a "sanitation corps" of boys. The practical effect, says a U.S. plantation foreman, has been to "set Cuban agriculture back five years." In Oriente province INRA plowed up 20,000 acres of ranch land for truck farming-then learned that there was no way to irrigate the parched land...
...cement-plant foreman and Canadian-born-like nearly every other player in the N.H.L.-Hull first handled a stick at the age of four back in Point Anne, Ont. By the time he was 14, he looked so good just playing junior-league hockey in Belleville, Ont. that he caught the eye of a touring Black Hawk scout, who reserved the likely prospect for Chicago by signing him to an option contract for a bonus so small that he now says: "I'm ashamed to mention it." Pro hockey is one of the toughest of all sports, but Hull...
...logging-camp foreman in the State of Washington, Hulet got his first bear at the age of twelve, has since killed 3,159 more in a lifetime dedicated to prowling the great woods of the Olympic Peninsula. Hulet refers to himself respectfully as "Bear Bill," is so thoroughly devoted to the hunt that he is fully at ease only in the woods. Around people, Hulet wears an air of perpetual apprehension. Bulky and rounded (5 ft. 10½ in., 240 Ibs.), Hulet lumbers over the ground like the bear he hunts. And when he draws on his huge bearskin cape...
...attitude of the steelworkers. Though some unions posted signs saying: "We shall return as slaves of Ike," and issued armbands emblazoned: "U.S.W. of A.-Ike's Slaves," the men were ready to work hard. U.S. Steel and others reported the workers' attitude "excellent." Said a foreman at Detroit's Great Lakes Steel: "Human nature is queer. There isn't any love feast between the workers and the company, but the guys in the plant have lots of pride and self-respect; they want to do a good...