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...Stephens was a one-man show, as he fought off B.U.'s foreign imports to win the 440 intermediate hurdles in 53 seconds flat, took another first in the sprint relay, placed second in the 1600 relay and fifth in the 110 high hurdles. Gutsy Andy Regan came from behind to win the steeplechase while B.C.'s treacherous water jump turned the race into a swimathon for some. (Are all Reagans front-runners...
...have traditionally been controlled by the "settlers," the Americo-Liberians. Tolbert's father was a former South Carolina slave who became a rich coffee grower and rice, farmer in Liberia. The son, a Baptist minister, was the country's Vice President for 20 years under the virtual one-man rule of President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman. After Tubman's death in 1971, Tolbert succeeded to the presidency and to the leadership of Liberia's only political party, the True Whigs...
Boullioun is, in an almost literal sense, a one-man sales force, not merely drumming up deals on his own initiative but also parachuting in to stroke a wavering or reluctant customer if an assistant should call for help. Example: last December he learned that TWA was leaning toward the European Airbus over the 767. Boullioun arranged for his management team to produce in-house analyses of the operational performance data TWA was working from and concluded that the airline's research was "inaccurate." After a quick and thorough updating of Boeing's presentation, he added a pledge...
Companion-in-arms to Indian fighters, writer-memoirist, painter laureate of the Old West, Frederic Remington is the subject of this one-man show. Playwright Aranha's personality portrait breathes with a sense of the untamed times of Remington's youth...
...Party followers that some apartheid laws-such as those banning interracial marriage and sex could be relaxed in order to defuse mounting pressures for social and political change. Said Botha: "This country cannot live as an island." But his proposed reforms fell far short of black African demands for one-man, one-vote equality...