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...dozen times during a conversation. But Charlie also developed a passion for reading a dictionary as living literature. "When I look up a word," he says, "I start to browse, and next thing I know, I've read four or five pages." (Now he bones up on the Rand McNally Atlas and the World Almanac before his sessions on the air.) One weekend in his teens, he picked up the Bible and read it through. He feels, however, that he never read in earnest until he decided to try for a Ph.D. in English literature. He systematically read...
...champs than big-rig drivers barreling through Sunday traffic on their way to the loading platforms. Wyoming's little Joe Capua and North Carolina's Jerry Vayda gave it the old college try, kept the Truckers in contention all the way. Marquette's Terry Rand almost broke up the ball game in the final minutes with a curling hook shot from the keyhole. This was competition the like of which Phillips Olympic Veterans Chuck Darling, Bill Houghland, Jim Walsh and Burdy Haldorson had never seen in Melbourne. The 66ers strained their gaskets to squeeze...
When the Minneapolis Lakers made lanky Terry Rand their second-draft choice and offered him a $7,500 contract, Groom and Dee made a somewhat different pitch: Did Rand want to study law? Well, Denver U. had a fine law school, and an executive trainee with DC Trucking would have time for classes as well as practice sessions and some 30 games of basketball a season. A trainee would get $400 a month salary plus all the fringe benefits, including a sizable bonus. And who knows? Rand might like Denver Chicago and go on to make transcontinental trucking his career...
Breath of Scandal. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Virginia K. Rand won a divorce after she testified that her husband objected to the way she was making garlic toast at a party, "made a scene in the presence of our guests and humiliated me by making the garlic toast himself...
...physicists and engineers concerned with the 1958 launching of an artificial satellite have steadily assumed that it will be consumed by the intense heat it generates as it plunges back toward earth through the thickening atmosphere. Not necessarily so, says a study released this week by the Rand Corp. (which does research for the Air Force...