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...Marion pointed out, the Quaker squad tends to be very strong. Penn had been using the fleche, a running approach, rather frequently--the maneuver is very hard to parry but predictable...
...easy to see why; Penn has one of the best collections of lightweight wrestlers around, and Harvard has balance. The Crimson ought to be able to pile up enough points in the middle weight classes be offset an early Quaker lead...
...Paine did not know that Oswald had hidden a gun in the garage. As a Quaker, she would not have permitted it, although it is within the law and a relatively common practice in Texas to keep a weapon in the house...
...turned down as being "too Catholic." A devout churchgoer who attends Mass daily, he was born in Lecce in the heel of Italy's boot, studied law at the University of Bari, at 24 began teaching. Entering Parliament in 1946, the newcomer was nicknamed by his colleagues "The Quaker" because of his dour outlook and austere habits. Through sheer diligence, Moro became Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1948, received his own ministry (Justice) in 1955. However, his speeches as a politician sounded as if he were still addressing law students at Bari, contained so many pedantic abstractions that...
...people to create them, with much the same educated intuition he uses to pick the ponies: "You look, sniff and close your eyes." His shop is approaching $30 million in annual billing, having just landed the Piel's Beer account and much of the Quaker Oats and U.S. Rubber business-a rare hat trick on Madison Avenue. Koenig still writes some drug and whisky ads himself and checks every word of copy that his agency produces but there are "no review committees and no big think sessions." At home in Westchester County, slight and balding Koenig reads "everything from...