Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offices. In Rio's Maracana Stadium last week, 60 groups of election clerks counted away amid milling onlookers, nervous candidates, Coca-Cola vendors and party observers keeping a partisan eye on the counting. Now and then election officials brought in new canvas sacks full of ballots from guarded, iron-barred storerooms...
...copies were not sold. The books, containing the talks by Arnold Toynbee Joseph Wood Crutch, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnam, and others, were thus finally printed and now have sold 25,000 copies. The Voice of America liked these same talks so much that it adopted them to be beamed behind the Iron Curtain...
...Crimson can expect trouble from the dual passing threat of last year's Columbia iron man, Dick Carr, and this year's leading ivy passer quarterback Benham. "He's a pretty fair passer," Little says, speaking of Benham, who ranks fifth in the nation in passing and ninth in total yardage. Carr, of course, was an all-Eastern selection last year, a 60 minute man in every Columbia game, the Ivy's top passer, and the East's leader in total yardage. Coach Little has kept both his stars in the line-up by moving the versatile Carr...
...main problem for Little has been finding a replacement for last year's iron man left tackle John Casella. Ex-Marine Ben Hoffman, who is the heaviest member of the squad at 225 pounds, won the right tackle spot last year and has held onto it. Instead of Casella on the left this year, Little has started Paul Tremblay, a 205 pound sophomore. Captain Opydyke is at right guard and Fred Bucci, a 200 pound junior, is at left guard John Nelson, who alternated at center last year, will go at the pivot position today...
...Alfred) B. (for Bing) Drastrup, 49, was named president of Pittsburgh's A. M. Byers Co., biggest U.S. maker of wrought iron, replacing L. F. Rains, who is retiring after 23 years. Born in Copenhagen, Drastrup arrived in the U.S. in 1926, rounding out his schooling at Indiana University. He wanted to keep on going around the world, made it to the West Coast, but then retraced his steps and joined Byers in 1931 as a plant auditor. He rose through operations and sales to executive vice president last February...