Word: midget
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...windswept plateau of La Mancha, where Don Quixote once tilted with windmills, a man from the Spanish S.P.C.A. last week came upon a midget sitting beside his dog in an empty lot outside the town of Manzanares. The midget was guarding all that remained of a once great German circus that got stranded at Manzanares almost 14 months...
...that 30 performers had quit, and all but 18 wagons had been sold to settle debts or buy food. In Manzanares, the manager himself ran out, to be followed soon afterward by the rest of the performers, who went home to Germany. Only Francis Grutzius, the 62-year-old midget, stayed on-to look after three elephants, two lions, seven bears, 14 dogs, a colony of monkeys, two porcupines and one eagle...
Winners by a decisive margin last fall when almost all of their runners were sophomores, the Ithacans will be aiming for an all-time low point score. Junior Jack Rosenbaum, the midget-sized first man for Cornell, is picked to retain his individual title...
...MIDGET Crosley cars, which went out of production in 1952, will soon be produced in Israel for the European market. General Tire & Rubber Co., which bought control of Crosley, has made a deal to give Crosley's equipment to Israel's Abena Investment & Development Co. in exchange for a half-interest in the Israeli company. Machinery will be moved from Marion, Ind. to Tel Aviv. Abena will use cheap (about $3 a day) labor to turn...
Stargazing. A Junior Planetarium that projects 40 major constellations and 300 stars on the ceiling and walls of a darkened room is being sold by Harmonic Reed Corp. of Rosemont, Pa. The midget planetarium can be adjusted to different latitudes and dates, can simulate the nightly sweep of the stars. Price...