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...lightweights, then, have a hard uphill road to climb, but anything can happen. "Luck plays a very important part," Coolidge emphasizes. He had to "start from scratch" in his undefeated year in 1959, and the three returning lettermen he did have rowed on the JV's in the beginning. Maybe the same thing will happen again...
...Scratch the Scabby Sheep. Sent to French schools in Hanoi by her rich lawyer father (now South Viet Nam's Ambassador to the U.S.), Madame Nhu still speaks only halting Vietnamese, converses mostly in French. She met her future husband while wandering through a library where he was chief archivist, married him in 1943. Three years later, she was captured by the Communist Viet Minh while her husband was away on a trip; she was held prisoner in a remote village until, with the help of a Catholic partisan, she escaped to be reunited with Nhu in Saigon...
...deck parking garage and a roof-garden restaurant with bar. Its merchandise is predominantly Western-styled, and only 60% of it is made in Japan. To provide this much Japanese merchandise, Seibu's buyers had to organize a Japanese children's clothing industry almost from scratch (Japanese children wear school uniforms) and to persuade furniture makers to raise Japan's small, low-slung dining tables to coffee-table height...
What messed things up was an amendment offered by Pennsylvania Democrat Francis E. ("Tad") Walter. It would have scrapped a redistricting plan already painfully worked out in Pennsylvania, forcing the state to start again from scratch-or run all its Congressmen at large. After hot dispute, the amendment was adopted...
...gigantic undertaking. At least 14 to 18 months of painstaking preparations had gone into each of the previous U.S. test series. But J.T.F. 8 will have had just four months to get ready for April's blasts. What is more, the task force had to begin virtually from scratch. President Kennedy long ago gave up any idea of testing from the familiar sites at Bikini and Eniwetok because of their small size, the proximity of populated islands and the inhibiting fact that the U.S. administers both atolls by U.N. mandate -a point that roused international ire during past tests...