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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Business Governor. Chapel Hill beckoned early to Luther Hodges, born March 9, 1898, eighth among nine children of a poor tenant farmer who gave up and moved into the textile-mill town of Spray (1950 pop. 5,500). Though Luther quit seventh grade to work in the mill (50? a day), he later saved $62.50, at 17 went off to work his way through Chapel Hill (class of '19). After college, he resolved to go back home and make his mark in the mills, in 17 years worked his way up to production manager of Marshall Field...
...also developed in testimony that McNamara and another former ICA official, William E. Kirby, accepted substantial favors in 1957 from a Hong Kong transportation firm that got a $275,000 contract to supply ferryboats for a transport system across the Mekong River, between Thailand and Laos. Kirby later quit ICA and took a job with the company. Until Congress took notice, ICA headquarters in Washington seemed almost indifferent to the shenanigans in Laos, and slow to investigate thoroughly. Representative Porter Hardy Jr. of Virginia, chairman of the subcommittee, last week indignantly suggested abolition of ICA altogether, and a fresh start...
...Texas one of the most fertile experimental theaters in the U.S. In 1953 he startled Shakespeareans with an Othello that split the Moor into three abstractly made-up characters who represented separate aspects of the tormented hero's character. Three years later he persuaded Actor Burgess Meredith to quit his role as Sakini in Teahouse of the August Moon, be anchor prince in a four-hero Hamlet. Last week Baker stood by as 115 student actors presented his headiest experiment: a complex, three-hour dramatization of Thomas Wolfe's sprawling novel. Of Time and the River...
...smoker himself, Dr. Wynder despairs of persuading 55 million Americans to quit the habit. But to make it safer, he urges manufacturers to use low-tar tobaccos and the most potent filters they can find. For smokers themselves he recommends: try to cut down, inhale less, never smoke down to the butt-not more than half of a king-size cigarette-because 60% of the tar is in the last half...
...null ice pack for ten months, Endurance drifted 1,000 miles northward off the Palmer Peninsula. Finally the party abandoned the crushed wreck and stood on the floe, some 300 miles from land. The men tried dragging boats across the ice in search of open water; they had to quit after two miles. For five more months, they camped in the open, drifting, drifting. There was the sad rite of shooting the dogs, the terror of being dragged off the ice by vicious 1,100-Ib. sea leopards that could leap from the water and catch a running...