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...nation's most remarkable sportsmen, Norman Clyde is close kin to the West's lonely mountain men of the 19th century, trail blazers who had the curiosity, the courage and the craft to discover what lay beyond the next peak. He works as a guide only long enough to finance his own expeditions, and he can exist for months at a stretch in the Sierra. His towering pack makes him self-sufficient. Not only does it contain such essentials as dehydrated food and a three-quarter ax, but also shoe nails and a cobbler's hammer, material...
...being the country's most famous illustrator and most conspicuous bohemian. he was its gruffest voicer of strong opinions. "I know why there are so many pretty gals in New York," he once said, "all the ugly ones are in college." He dismissed Picasso's work as "kin to the nasty scrawls chalked on alley walls by underprivileged Mongolian monster boys...
...long as two years, will be men in the middle and upper age ranges. Women enjoy natural protection through their sex hormones or estrogens against the worst ravages of atherosclerosis, in which cholesterol and related fatty substances clog the arterial tubes. Triparanol synthesized by Merrell, is such close kin to female sex hormones that it has been whimsically dubbed a "nonestrogenic estrogen...
...typically strenuous weeks, Herbert Hoover (whose secretary, explaining his pace, can only say: "He doesn't know he's 85") conferred with his old friend, No. 1 G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, who is no kin, about Manhattan's projected Herbert Hoover Building, new national headquarters of Boys' Clubs of America. Both Hoovers are on its national board, Herbert Hoover its chairman for the past 25 years. Day before the meeting, ex-President Hoover popped up by surprise at a lively Stanford University alumni luncheon in Manhattan. Hoover, a member of Stanford's first graduating...
...Herald R. Cox, developers of two of three U.S. live vaccines. It is an impossible requirement, snapped Dr. Sabin, because by its very nature the oral, weakened virus is designed to multiply in the human digestive tract. It is bound to spread to unvaccinated contacts (especially close kin) of vaccinated subjects, and make some of them immune. So if the vaccine is effective, it will destroy the basis for such a comparison by protecting some of the unvaccinated...