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Dean Barnes then called upon Hector C. Ingrao, lecturer on Astronomy, who discussed the difficulties and rewards of studying the stars from the southern continent. Milton Katx, director of international legal studies at the Law School, stressed the common ground the inter-disciplinary study had revealed...
...last 13 times. "The worst team in the history of baseball," somebody once called them, and Former Owner Arnold Johnson made matters worse by turning the team into a kind of farm club for the New York Yankees-trading away such stars as Roger Maris, Cletis Boyer, Ralph Terry, Hector Lopez...
Money Is Better. As the "scarlet epidemic" spread, it became more distinguished to reject than to accept the award. Degas, De Maupassant, Clemenceau, Gide, Sartre and Camus all allegedly turned the Legion down. Offered the medal in lieu of payment for his famed requiem commissioned by the government, Composer Hector Berlioz snorted: "To hell with your Legion of Honor. I want my money." But a refusal cannot be worn in a buttonhole, and thousands of other Frenchmen still openly court the award...
...Died. Hector Escobosa, 56, president since 1951 of I. Magnin & Co.'s high-style women's stores in San Francisco and 15 other Western cities, who, instead of copying European fashions, imported them at realistic prices, turned his stores into the best in the West; of a heart attack; in Williamsburg...
Murder at the Gallop has other notable characters and one--Robert Morly as Hector--even proves worthy escort for Miss Marple. But Margaret Rutherford is a mountain of reassurance all by herself, and in an age of Cosa Nostra it is comforting to enter at least one world in which crime can never...