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Tenebrous. A calm champion-the first boy to win since 1954-pudgy, pink-cheeked Joel slung an arm around tearful Bobby and quietly allowed that his only real puzzler had been intitule in an early round. Joel came equipped to win. The son of a lumber salesman, he reads four or five books a week, is starting Darwin's Origin of Species. And his spelling coach at Denver's Byers Junior High School is Teacher Ted Glim, producer of a co-champion two years ago, who shuns rote memorization. Glim starts with accurate pronunciation. "Then we go thoroughly...
...just an ordinary, well-adjusted gag writer. He admits having surrounded his former Hollywood home with a steel Cyclone fence and forbidding signs saying "Northridge Lion Farm," but he denies shooting at low-flying aircraft. He also admits the story about how he loaded up his swimming pool with lumber, but only, he explains with Douglassy logic, to help the rabbits and gophers that might fall...
...Labrador; its most avid students are immigrant laborers who hunger to learn English in order to become Canadian citizens. Last week the Toronto-based school dispatched the first of this summer's 75 instructors-most of them greenhorn college students-to take grueling jobs in remote mines, lumber camps, construction and railroad gangs. "They arrive at the camps as soft as colleges can make them," says Frontier's muscular principal, Eric Robinson, 33. a onetime McGill University football player. "Most of them are filled with ivory-tower idealism. It's apt to be a traumatic experience...
...something worthwhile"--is no accident, for the dean was right too. There is no obvious Wellesley stereotype on campus. The college prides itself on the ever-widening geographical distribution of its students, and weekday dress does not fit in with the usual picture of the Wellesley girl. (Leather jackets, lumber jackets, and gym suits were scattered plentifully...
...give cutters proper guidance because the Scientific Research Institute of Anthropology has failed to supply it with proper statistical data on the sizes and shapes of the Soviet people. Another cause of all the trouble, added Izvestia: up until recently, the clothing industry has been headed by a lumber expert...