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...leaping and stomping gets going at the finish). Alas; the dancers, being ideologues, are not welcomed by Jordan Marsh (the wealthy fiance of Hardy's daughter, Wholsa) or by Pansy Pineherse (Hardy's old flame) and her clutch of reactionary flower-gardeners. The ladies decide to call in a one-man Senate investigating committee, Sea-bigot Colder, to drive the dancers out; this amiable demagogue tries in the process to indict Senator Hardy for not fulfilling a government fertilizer (wonderful stuff for a certain sort of joke) contract. At the same time Wholsa falls out with Marsh, and in with...
Awori was in effect a one-man team, scoring 15 of the Crimson's points. After winning the broad jump in the afternoon with a leap of 23 ft. 5 1/4 in., Awori returned that evening to sweep the dash and the hurdles...
...One-Man Monastery. "I found what I had been looking for," he recalls, "a place where a Lutheran could become a monk." After briefly testing his vocation at Taizé, Kreinheder gave up his job as a merchandise manager for Detroit's J. L. Hudson department store to study in Sweden for the ministry, and after his ordination in 1956 decided to try organizing a Taizé-style community...
...historic night of the coup itself. More than a hundred shouting reporters and photographers pushed aside his tommy-gun-waving guard and crowded around Iraq's boss to hear Aref speak freely about the aims and purposes of the new government. He said something about an end to one-man rule, friendship with all Arab states, and the "overcoming of all the difficulties facing the Iraqi people." But he was mysteriously silent about the size or membership of the all-powerful National Council of the Revolutionary Command, which organized and led the revolt against Kassem...
...feverish effort, he learned the tangled ramifications of world oil, emigrated to the U.S. in 1941. There, his talents won him a presidential citation for work as a wartime Government adviser. One achievement: pinpointing Nazi oil targets for the Air Force by tedious study of German railroad freight rate reductions. In postwar assignments he had a key role in charting U.S. oil policy, and opened his own one-man consulting service in 1949. His counsel has been sought by almost all major U.S. oil companies, including Caltex, Sinclair. Atlantic Refining and Socony, as well as by foreign firms and rulers...