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...Lawrence Cowen, president of the Lionel Corp. since 1946, resigned as president and was named board chairman by a group of investors-headed by Lawyer Roy Cohn-which got control of more than 200,000 of Lionel's 720,000 outstanding shares. Ailing Lionel (1958 loss: $469,057), a leading toy-train maker, also produces baseball gloves, fishing gear and electronic devices. Cohn, once chief counsel of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigating subcommittee, said his group will name a new president in the near future and adopt "drastic marketing changes...
...this task, the Institut got off to an appropriate multinational start. The 62 first-year enrollees (chosen from 160 applications) represent 14 countries, attend lectures in English, French and German, are taught by German, Belgian, French, Canadian, British, Italian, Dutch, Swiss and U.S. professors. To be accepted, each student has to speak two of the teaching languages, be able to understand a third. Initially, classes are being conducted in a corner of the palace, a French national monument, but Director General Willem Christopher Posthumus Meyjes, a Dutch diplomat, expects in four years to have a new campus outside Paris. Ultimate...
While the belly laughs are few, the chuckles are frequent in The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, and as its redoubtable hero might put it, "by Keplen. high-tone crititzizink is a vaste time. Tsplit infinitifs, I got; wrong tanses, like-vise; dobble nagetifs, also. Hau Kay? Enjoy...
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...punting duel between Boulris and Warren brought the Crimson back deep into their own territory, when the "Jet" finally got off a booming kick which carried 56 yards to the Lion 14. Shortly thereafter, the Lions committed another of their many blunders, when Don Savini lost the ball and Boulris recovered. Two plays later, Ravenel rolled through right tackle for what proved to be the deciding touchdown, though it marked the beginning of the frightening Lion rally...