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...that sense, the decathlon poses an impossible challenge. No one man can ever hope to be the absolute best in all ten events. The lean sprinter will have trouble with the shot; the beefy weight man will lumber through the 100 meters. Worse yet, the events are cunningly alternated so that the competitor has no chance to use the same muscles and reflexes twice in succession. The cumulative effect is numbing. Because of his rare combination of speed and strength, Johnson is at his best in the 100 meters, 400 meters, the javelin, discus and shotput. But his weight...
Back in 1956, Corey and two friends had put up $30,000 each to lease an old lumber warehouse near Portland and fit it up for storing grain. In three years the partners harvested profits of $83,000 apiece. Last week, too sick from bleeding ulcers to be present in the courtroom, Corey was convicted by a federal jury in Portland of violating conflict-of-interest laws...
...Party platforms have traditionally been ramshackle structures-ill-assorted odds and ends of lumber loosely nailed together by cautious, compromise-minded committees. By comparison, the 1960 Democratic platform, grandly entitled "The Rights of Man," is a well-made document: straightforward, clear, brief and-as platforms go-probably the most coherent blueprint for Utopia ever to come out of a convention. As such, it reflected not only the promises of the candidate but the leanings of its principal architect: Platform Committee Chairman Chester Bowles, 59, Congressman from Connecticut, prospeous ex-adman (Benton & Bowles), Harry Truman's best-known Ambassador...
...German immigrant who made a tidy fortune in lumber, Paepcke was the product of good Chicago private schools and more than the normal dose of private tutoring. He earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Yale, in 1926 struck out for himself in business. By 1945, he had built up the Container Corp. of America into one of the world's most imaginative packaging concerns. But that year he also took a fateful vacation in Colorado...
Many co-ops have spread far afield of agriculture, own oil wells, tankers, insurance companies, banks, paper mills, lumber yards, phone companies, hospitals and even mortuaries. The Consumers Cooperative Association, a farm organization headquartered at Kansas City, owns three oil refineries, 1,000 or so oil wells, 935 miles of pipelines, three fertilizer plants, two feed mills, a steel-fabricating plant, a paint and grease factory and a packinghouse, counts assets of $118 million. Grossing $154 million last year, Consumers had a net of $10.3 million. It paid only $1,237,000 in taxes, less than one-fourth the federal...