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...quarter of a century, is about to retire. His successor: Robert M. White, president of the Travelers Research Center, which does research in meteorology and other fields for Connecticut's Travelers Insurance Co. White is the very model of a New Frontier weatherman: a Bostonian by origin, a Harvardman, and only 40. He has never been in Tulsa...
...believed that it could be done again, since presumably the Reds would now be suspicious of sports cars. Nevertheless, last week another enamored suitor with the same strategy in mind rented the same Sprite from the same West Berlin agency. Then Norbert Konrad, 26, an Argentine citizen of German origin, drove into East Berlin, cached his blonde sweetheart, Helga, in the car in the same way, and roared back to the West under the same peppermint-striped wooden crossbar. Belatedly, the Communists began fitting out the underside of the barrier with steel bars...
Boys in Baggies. The true surfer is scornful of the "ho-daddies" (a gibe of undetermined origin) and "grem-mies" (gremlins, usually girls), those hangers-on who may never get wet behind the ears as far as surfing goes but like to immerse themselves in the dense jargon of the in group. To all, "baggies" are the loose-legged boxer swim trunks worn by the boys. "Hot dogging" is either class-A surfing or show-off stuff. To "take gas" or "wipe out" is to lose a board in the curl of a wave and land in the foamy "soup...
...message. Yet much of the talk at the Conference was devoted to the way tradition has shaped man's interpretation of the Bible. One probable consequence of this new concern: a re-examination by Protestant theologians of Scriptural texts about Mary, to study the origin of Catholic and Orthodox teachings about the Mother...
Chuca Choo, Chuca Choo. Several other railroad unions had the same kind of origin as the Firemen. Working on the railroad was a hazardous way of making a living in the 19th century. Many a fireman was scarred by a boiler explosion, many a yardman was mashed between cars. So often did brakemen fall from atop moving cars that one in three would be injured or killed in the course of a year. Understandably, insurance companies were reluctant to insure railroaders. In the railroad workers' need for insurance the first rail unions had their beginnings, as fraternal insurance societies...