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Torroja (pronounced toe-roe-ha) has long been recognized within a narrow professional circle as a creative engineer whose breathtaking structures are rivaled in Europe only by those of Italy's Pier Luigi Nervi. Even the late Frank Lloyd Wright doffed his porkpie in salute, said, "He has expressed the principles of organic construction better than any engineer I know...
Died. Joe Cook, 69, zany vaudevillian who juggled six Indian clubs, devised complicated Seltzer-squirting, walnut-cracking machines, brought the house down by telling why he would not imitate four Ha| waiian ukulele players; in Clinton...
...wonder and solemn respect. Dr. Sax. the hawk-faced, silent, evil-battling spook whom Jack Duluoz invents (and then sees, fearfully, in every dark doorway), gets from place to place by grooking. Dr. Sax plays poker incessantly, has a high, fiendish laugh ("Mwee hee ha ha ha"). And when his stalking of the evil Great World Snake makes it necessary, he pulls a rubber boat out of his slouch hat, pumps it up and paddles across the Merrimack...
Champagne in Fatigues. Still dressed in fatigues, Castro marched into the Hotel Statler next morning, precisely on time for a friendly champagne-and-steak luncheon with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter. "Ha, they gave me little [new] potatoes!" said Fidel. That afternoon, strolling through Meridian Hill Park, he signed autographs for teenagers. "What do you call your government?" asked one. "Socialism, or what?" Castro smiled. "Cubanism!" he announced. "I feel very good," he added, scratching his chest...
...week's end police were admitting privately that "some of the lads swung when they should have nodded," and collegians were excusing the cops: "They're not of the higher intelligence groups, I feel." Alumni were telling each other that the St. Patrick's hoo-ha did not measure up to the 1919 battle between college boys and parading veterans of World War I. Students were not even very mad at their prexy any longer; Whitney Griswold, who promised to kick out students for any more bad behavior, finally admitted that both sides had cause for grievance...