Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unimpressed. Last month, when the Sudan got its first democratic government since a 1958 army coup, Arab hopes ran high that the blacks might finally listen to reason. The new regime promised them equal rights, religious freedom and a minority in the Cabinet. The south was unimpressed. The offers fell far short of the provincial autonomy demanded by even moderate southern leaders. Still worse, the power behind the new regime was a bright young man named Sadik el Mahdi-scion of the Sudan's richest family and boss of the Mahdist sect, which to the south is the very...
Fortunately he was abnormally bright and abnormally talented. He entered the University of Michigan at 15. Illness forced him to seek a more salubrious climate, however, so he transferred to the University of Miami, where he ran the school magazine, acted in plays, became a cheerleader, and earned part of his tuition by singing in a nightclub...
...Shame." Two months ago Snell ran a half-mile in Honolulu, then a mile in Los Angeles. He won both races, but his time for the half-mile (1 min. 53.8 sec.) was only soso. He ran an 880-yd. race against Canada's Bill Crothers in Toronto. On the last turn, Snell pulled his usual ploy, turned on a great burst of speed for the final sprint, but Crothers hung on, passed him 40 yds. from the tape. "My legs felt dead," complained Snell...
...they say, implies a threat to the legality of fingerprints, photographs and police lineups. The Graves decision will be appealed to the California Supreme Court, which handed down the Dorado decision that started all the commotion. Along with an editorial blast at Dorado, the San Francisco Examiner last week ran a cartoon reducing the decision to its ultimate absurdity: a lawyer's claim that his client should be shielded even from the incriminating implications of a court appearance...
...which is practically a century in that business. The line includes such venerable medicaments as Sloan's Liniment, Smith Brothers Cough Drops, Listerine, Rolaids, and Bromo-Seltzer. Warner-Lambert's newer directions are the result of a corporate turn-around wrought by a man who never ran a business before becoming its president eleven years ago: two-term (1947-54) New Jersey Governor Alfred Eastlack Driscoll...