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...bear would be a boy. In a camp for Palestinian refugees outside the Jordanian city of Jericho, Mrs. Shamma Mohamed Sammour complacently accepted congratulations on the birth of her ninth child-a girl whom the Sammours decided to name Sariah, which in Arabic means rich. On his Brazilian ranch, lean, energetic Berlino de Andrade, 67, confided to friends that he had decided to have no more children, but was unworried by the problem of supporting the 36 he had already sired. Said Berlino: "If I can't do anything better for them, I can always raise them...
...killer escaped; in 1958 a drunken Norwegian sailor threw Finnish Hennie out of a window. Early last month Amsterdamers heard unsavory details of life in De Walletjes during the trial of Joop Scheide, a pimp who was~sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for killing a harlot called Lean Jossie. Scheide explained that he had only meant to give the girl a good beating because she had earned less than $20 in one night's work...
...cripples. Compared to the giants he faces in the forecourt, he is only medium-sized (6 ft. 6 in., 210 Ibs.). Yet, when he gets his sensitive hands on the ball, no shotmaker in the N.B.A. is more feared than the Cincinnati Royals' Jack Twyman, 25, a lean-faced battler with an incredibly soft touch...
...early 1957, with the firm's owners grumbling about lean profits despite fat fees (annual gross: up to $400 million), Mamie Averill sensed that an audit was on the way. She resigned to enjoy her clothes and cars and homes until the reckoning that, as a skilled bookkeeper, she knew was coming...
...lean year for newsmen, too. Both NBC and CBS have decided that this year there would be no Christmas gifts to the press...