Word: sam
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...High jump: It is phenomenal for a Heps team to have one 6 ft., 6 in. high jumper, let alone two. Yale's Sam Streibert and Bill Flippin should tie for the top spot...
House Speaker Sam Rayburn won the battle (217-212) for control of the powerful House Rules Committee, but his war with Chairman Howard Smith has just begun. Vengeful Judge Smith has been trying to get back at Speaker Rayburn by calling up for a floor vote bills that would embarrass the Democratic leadership, particularly those that are anathema to Mister Sam (such as a bill to televise any House committee session). Thus far, the committee majority of eight pro-Rayburn Democrats has closed ranks, refused to let the bills reach the floor. But this puts the Rayburnites in the awkward...
...torpid, neutralist Burma last week, students of the University of Rangoon applied to police for permission to burn Uncle Sam in effigy in front of the U.S. embassy. Police consented, ordered protective barricades placed around the embassy building, and assigned a detail of cops to march along with the students. It was all meant to be orderly, but then a zealot kicked over a barricade. With that, the biggest anti-U.S. riot in Burmese history was on. Countless embassy windows were shattered, and the embassy walls besmeared with paint. Burmese police and troops fired into the crowd. When...
After the meet had been decided, Yale's Bill Flippin and Sam Streibert put the icing on the cake by clearing 6 ft., 6 in. in the high jump, setting new Cage and school marks...
Useful Garbage. Dealer Sam Greiff, who last year bought 2,120,000 surplus Zippers for $120,000, is slowly making a killing by selling them at cut rates to jacket manufacturers, is known in the trade as the Zipper King. Greiff has just bought 400,000 Army coat fronts (stiffening material for jackets) for $15,000, is now also known as the Stiffened Coat Front King. In a world where everyone is a king of some product, the king of kings is Eddie Tarashinsky, 43, whose father pioneered the surplus business in 1904, and whose twelve New York warehouses...