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...Thousand. New Hampshire's Lottery Commission had to egg-walk its way through a maze of federal rules and regulations designed to make a state lottery all but impossible. As chief egg walker they sagaciously chose a pillar of probity-ex-FBI Agent Edward J. Powers, 51, who helped break Boston's famed Brinks robbery. So far, Sweepstakes Chief Powers has well earned his $20,000 salary...
Leader of the Revolutionary Committee was Rightist General Kouprasith Abhay, 38, a fervent anti-Communist and pillar of the local Rotary Club who won 1960's Battle of Vientiane; he thus blocked the neutralists and pro-Communist Pathet Lao, only to have his victory stalemated by the 1962 Geneva agreement that established Laos's neutralist regime. The coup leaders were a pair of strange birds, even for the wild aviary of Southeast Asia: Kouprasith is a nervous strongman with a pet baby elephant, an incipient ulcer and a reliance on sedatives; Siho plays the dandy, wears three gold...
...concept of a "monument:" Webster's defines such an edifice as "a building, stone, pillar, or the like, erected in memory of the dead." Neitzche, you may remember, pronounced the Almighty's demise. Does Johnson concur? Some, for their own nefarious political purpose, may insinuate that he shares the philosopher's conviction. These ill-wishers may remind the voters of that compelling syllogism from Thus Spake Zarathustra: "If there were Gods, then how could I bear to be no God. Therefore, there are no Gods...
...defeat at Waterloo before anyone else in Britain, thanks to a courier who sped a Dutch newspaper to him. He used the news to make a killing on the London stock market, where he customarily leaned in stoic solitude against a post that became known as "the Rothschild pillar...
Married. Edward William Carter, 52, president of Broadway-Hale Stores, pillar of California community enterprise (fund raiser for the Los Angeles art museum, University of California regent); and Hannah Locke Caldwell, 49, member of the first (1936) U.S. women's Olympic ski team; both for the second time; in Menlo Park, Calif...