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...Aztec. A beetle-browed 200-pounder whose suits seem a size too small, 46-year-old Jacques Soustelle is well suited for his wrecker's work; he looks like an able-bodied warehouseman who has unaccountably wandered into the National Assembly from Les Halles markets. In reality, he is a coldly brilliant scholar who graduated from Paris' famed Ecole Normale Supérieure at 20, won fame as an anthropologist by a series of notable books on the Incas and Aztecs. Soustelle's travels in Latin America with his Tunis-born wife-also an anthropologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Wrecker | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...score is dedicated to Composer Bales's grandfather, a Union captain, but at least at one point the suspicion is aroused that Virginia-born Richard Bales has fired one last shot for the Grey: to record the boom of a cannon, Columbia sound engineers had a twelve-pounder touched off at Manassas, the site of two of the North's worst defeats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tenting Tonight | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Pettit is actually a 147-pounder, who has moved up a class. He could be potentially a fine wrestler if he worked harder. So far this season, he has scored pins in both his matches, and he wrestled especially well against his M.I.T. opponent...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Lee Expects Good Year For Yardling Wrestlers | 1/22/1958 | See Source »

...President-grooming job you did on Vice President Nixon in the Dec. 9 issue? You have whitewashed Tricky Dick so clean that I am sure his own mother wouldn't recognize him. I almost burst into tears about the modest 9-Ib. turkey (no 40-pounder for him) that Pat roasted on Thanksgiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...pound class, his normal position. Sophomore Bob Kozol, the regular 123-pound man on last year's freshman team, will move up to the 130-pound class. John Watkins, who scored a decision win at Dartmouth, will again wrestle at 137, although he is normally a 130-pounder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers to Meet Weak M.I.T. In Home Opener at I.A.B. Tonight | 12/18/1957 | See Source »

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