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...lighter weights, the varsity was clearly outclassed, as Tatsuo Arima at 123, John Winthrop at 131, and Phil Andrews at 137 lost by pins and Captain Phil Burnaman at 147 dropped a 5-2 decision...
...lighter weights the only change will be at 137 pounds, where Phil Andrews replaces Ed Keating. Captain Phil Burnaman will fill the 147 pound position, while Tatsuo Arima and John Winthrop wrestle at 123 and 130 respectively...
...find to list to the regime's credit. All the rest of the oil wealth, a billion dollars or more, has gone down the drain, he says, in "vast private fortunes accumulated and invested safely beyond the borders . . . vast expenditures by princes and officials on the lighter side of life . . ." The Police State. As the profligacy of King Saud's household has increased, says Philby, his tyranny has tightened. Whenever his subjects, usually students and other sons of traders enriched by his extravagance, have shown signs of political restiveness, the King has invoked his father's stern...
...Steel Hour had a lighter and happier essay on the same theme of a family consuming its own, with a TV adaptation of the London and Broadway hit Edward, My Son. Britain's Robert Morley was superb as the oleaginous trickster who believes that nothing is too good for his son-or for himself, either-and is ready to burn down a building or buy up a school to prove...
...deep tillage plow. It was a handsome pair. The 47-h.p. tractor, in fire-engine red and cream yellow, was the first 1956 model off the assembly line of the Cockshutt factory at Bellevue, Ohio. Equipped with a pushbutton radio for standard and short-wave broadcasts, a cigarette lighter on the dash, hydraulic controls, the tractor would retail for $4,000. Commenting that "two-thirds to three-quarters of my top soil now is in the Atlantic Ocean, or somewhere between here and there," Farmer Ike asked if the moldboard plow would cut 14 inches deep, was assured that...