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Collected by ALEXANDER AFANASEV Translated by NORBERT GUTERMAN 662 pages. Pantheon...
...Senator Gaylord Nelson, Illinois' Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III or Minnesota's Governor Wendell R. Anderson. Only a month before Minnesota's precinct caucuses are to be held, the G.O.P. has no gubernatorial candidate on the horizon. The Democrats are having no such problems. Says Norbert R. Dreiling, the party's state chairman in Kansas: "People who were reluctant to run as sacrificial lambs are now begging for a spot on the ticket...
Stanley Berent was born with his armless hands growing directly out of his shoulders, and he is known, in the cruel world of the carnival, as "Sealo the Sealboy." Norbert P. Terhune is a dwarf, 3 ft. 6 in. tall, billed as "Poo-Bah the Pygmy." Both of them worked for World Fair Freaks and Attractions, a sideshow that toured various Southern county fairs. In the summer of 1969 World Fair was preparing to open in North Bay Village, near Miami, when the local police threatened to prosecute under a 1921 state law against freak shows, which calls...
...That same morning, Dutch police in Scheveningen rounded up the three frogmen, who had been promised more than $7,000 apiece for the job, and charged them with robbery in international waters. The following day they collared one of the men accused of organizing the plot-Dutch Businessman Norbert Jurgens, 48, a large stockholder and employee of Veronica's. At week's end they also arrested and indicted as an accomplice Hendrik ("Bull") Verwey, one of three Dutch brothers who are the principal owners of Veronica. "We never wanted it that way," said Verwey. "No violence...
...first group of applicants the committee admits, the report says, are those "of recognizable brilliance." "These are men whose intellectual promise seems to be beyond and apart from the usual measure of scores and grades-a potential William James, Percy Bridgeman, T.S. Eliot, W.E.B. Dubois, Norbert Wiener or Robert Frost," the report says...