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...praise Allah; when she misses a short one, she may exclaim, "I feel like nuts & bolts rattling together." On a hot day, she once gathered a circle of women around her on the golf course while she shed her petticoat; another time she startled the gallery with a highland fling. She once insisted on being paid her tournament money in one-dollar bills ("It makes me feel richer"). She operates like a woman whose life is a constant campaign to astound people...
...Clarksburg, W.Va. (pop. 32,000), where the morning Exponent (circ. 15,381) and evening Telegram (circ. 24,729) have been the only dailies in town for 50 years, Publisher Cecil B. Highland, 76, rules with an iron hand. The names of local citizens who displease Highland are banned from his papers, even though some hold public office. He has fought daylight saving time, a public sewage-disposal project, and turned down ads for a community project to raise money for the widow of a local hero who had tried to save three boys from drowning. By his own peculiar rules...
...change since 1947. Five in. longer and 150 Ibs. heavier, the tractor has a new four-cylinder, overhead-valve engine (20% more powerful) and a redesigned hydraulic system, for plows and other attachments, which can lift loads of 1,000 Ibs. (up from 750 Ibs.). Price: $1,474 f.o.b. Highland Park, Mich...
...Highland Home. Above the slopes, where derby-hatted women miners pick and sort the greyish-blue lumps for milling, are Huanuni's strings of company-built miners' homes. Over a cow-dung fire, Sabino Perez' wife cooks the evening meal of potatoes; because of the low boiling point at 12,800 feet they come out of the pan almost as raw and hard as they went in. Blue-cheeked children huddle inside the windowless, dirt-floored, one-room hut to escape the biting mountain wind. Within are a bed, two chairs, and a four-inch figure...
Also elected were Joshua Kurland Kopp, Dorchester, Mass. and Lowell, Physics; Frederick London Moolten, Highland Park, N. J. and Lowell, Biochemistry; Jack Jacob Neusner, West Hartford, Connecticut and Kirkland, History; David Marvin Osnos, Detroit and Kirkland, English; Herbert Victor Prochnow, Jr. Evanston, Illinois and Eliot, Economics...