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...student of agriculture and founded a club dedicated to reviving the lusty ways of 19th century Regency bucks. Shortly after he came down from Oxford, he decided to become a priest. "I can't explain why," he says. "God seems to call one, but not until one is halfway there does one really realize that...
...Halfway through his six-week tour of Russia, Bandleader Benny Goodman blew into Leningrad last week and delivered his message-piping hot and groovy. The Leningrad crowd that surged forward to greet him at the opening concert shouting "Davai Benny"was by all odds the jazz-happiest crew the band had yet encountered. The only letdown came at what should have been a high point in the tour-the collaboration of Goodman and Pianist Byron Janis in a performance of Rhapsody in Blue...
...says Dodger Vice President Fresco Thompson, Wills's mere presence on base "can raise the batting average of the man behind him in the line-up by 20 or 30 points." Explosion of Dust. It can also be considerably disconcerting to opposing infielders. Some runners start their slide halfway down the base path, thus presenting a good target for the tag. Not Wills...
Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy '54 and his precision-perfect organization swept the endorsement for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Attorney-General Edward J. McCormack Jr., but McCormack, charging "White House pressure" and "Federal arm-twisting," withdrew halfway through the first ballot and vowed to "take my case to the people" in the September primaries...
...observe the effects of its space explosions, the AEC has deployed a net of supersensitive instruments, some of them halfway around the world. These mechanical observers will watch the sky for auroras, feel the soil for electric currents, measure changes in the earth's magnetic field. At least two U.S. satellites now in orbit also carry equipment to observe the experiments, and foreign scientists are preparing for their own test watch. Before each explosion, the AEC has promised, all the world's laboratories will get advance word of when to watch for electrical disturbances, spreading like gigantic ripples...