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...separate himself from his own Vice President, Joāo ("Jango") Goulart, a political opponent elected by means of an electoral quirk that permits ballot splitting, Quadros refused to call off corruption investigators, who have implicated Goulart in several scandals, or to blunt their reports. On a protesting letter from the Veep, Quadros scribbled: "Return, for not being written in adequate terms and not representing the truth...
Mullin returned to the track an hour later and tied the varsity cage record in the 1000. He held the lead from the start, as Fred Howard, varsity captain, and Neal Quirk of B.U. battled for second place. Both Howard and teammate Gus Schumaker passed Quirk to complete the Crimson's sixth sweep of the meet...
...captain Fred Howard are favored to take the honors. Freeman, who is noted for his finishing , will also pose a threat in this event. The 600-yard run could be the race of the sight, however, as a close duel is expected between Don Kirkland of Harvard and Quirk...
Johnson, a one-legged veteran of World War II now on desk duty, loved David as much as he did his older sons. But David, with oblique eyes and clubbed fingers, was a mongoloid-born an idiot (thanks to some quirk of nature not yet understood). When Johnson pressed him, Dr. Berridge said David had little chance of learning anything more difficult than feeding himself and using the toilet, no chance of ever earning a living. Johnson wondered aloud, in his agony, what would happen to David when he and his wife were gone. What would this incubus...
Sunset International Petroleum Corp. is a lively, California-based oil company which operates wells in eight states, and has ambitions to grow bigger fast-thanks to a quirk in the tax laws. Sunset, headed by Morton A. Sterling, 34, last week was branching out into the real estate business. It purchased Tavares Development Co., a huge. San Diego real estate firm that helped build the state of Washington's Chief Joseph Dam, Los Angeles' $20 million Hyperion sewage system, has built nearly 15% of all San Diego residences, and is currently developing suburban San Carlos...