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North Carolina's William E. Cobb, 39, a slender, crew-cut lumber broker in Morganton, has been zealously building up his party since taking over the G.O.P. leadership in 1958. In 1960 Republican Robert L. Gavin managed to poll 46% of the vote for Governor. Cheered on by Cobb, nearly 1,000 delegates showed up at the annual state convention in March-nearly twice the expected number. Declared Cobb: "We are the nucleus of a political bombshell that can go off at any time...
...Robert Fulton and Samuel F. B. Morse had not the impulse to invent the steamboat and the telegraph taken priority with them. When he died in 1820, a few weeks after George III, the new King, George IV, wanted to banish all his father's Wests to the lumber room of Windsor Castle. He backed down only when another eminent West student intervened. The man was Sir Thomas Lawrence, who in that same year started his own loving portrait of the benign old master...
Soriano likes to say that business "must help the country," and he has played a major role in developing such Philippine resources as gold, iron, copper and lumber, as well as in the development of local industry to capitalize on those resources...
Canadian-born, the daughter of a machinist, Bonnie did her apprenticeship in U.S. coffeehouses and Canadian lumber camps...
...foray as a political candidate. In 1934, he ran for alderman in Ann Arbor on the Socialist ticket-and was routed. "I took socialism seriously for a couple of years during the bottom of the Depression," says Staebler, who is a millionaire on the strength of family interests in lumber and coal and his own ventures into real estate. "I have since discovered it was a mistake...