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...opportunities vary widely, they can be found on every continent. Frank Rizzo, 60, found his niche in Tokyo, where he now inspects and certifies Japanese imports and exports to protect buyers and sellers against future damage claims. George T. Parham, 62, left North Carolina for Southern Rhodesia as a leaf buyer for British-American Tobacco, stayed on to establish one of the world's largest tobacco auctions. Ex-Navyman Phillip Gordon, 44, arrived in Southern Rhodesia with a Jeep and $500 in 1949, is now one of the wealthiest men in British Central Africa; he has built two housing...
Toronto's Dave Keon singlehandedly engineered the Maple Leaf victory, blasting in two first-period goals and adding the clincher with 11 seconds left in the contest. Ageless Johnny Bower, the Leafs' goaltender, held Montreal scoreless until 7:27 of the final stanza...
...Guinness tells it, Eden was something of a bore. "Eve could see that her man was becoming more and more indifferent to her charms. How was she to change the monotony of their lives?" Simple enough. "She picked a large beautiful leaf, and passed it over her face and hair, and then lower and lower along her body, until suddenly, the hand stopped. And Eve knew. And from that moment on the textile industry has ruled the world...
...tells them. "Don't bother about what other people say, because you are you! The thing to be is just yourself." She also tells them that Monk is no one special, but the children have seen him asleep with his Japanese skullcap on his head or with a cabbage leaf drooping from his lapel, and they know better...
...such a degree that he takes to dancing on the sidewalks, buying extravagant gifts for anyone who comes to mind, playing his heart out. One day last fall he swept into his brother's apartment to dance before a full-length mirror so he could admire his collard-leaf boutonniere; he left without a word. "Hey!" he will call out. "Butterflies faster than birds? Must be, 'cause with all the birds on the scene up in my neighborhood, there's this butterfly, and he flies any way he wanna...