Word: seven-year-old
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Senior Pete Harpel led a Crimson sweep of the hammer, as he broke Sam Felton's seven-year-old record of 180 feet, 5 1/4 inches with a toss of 182 feet, 4 1/2 inches. John DuMoulin and Jim Doty took second and third for the varsity...
...long after Iranian-born Fazl Fotouhi, 46, took over as director of the American Cultural Center in Hiroshima, Japan (pop. 360,000), the sort of incident he had dreaded took place. One day his seven-year-old daughter delivered a gift of some stationery to an elementary school. A group of boys suddenly surrounded her. Screaming "American, your nose is too high. Baka! [stupid idiot]. You dropped the atomic bomb on us," they threatened to beat her with sticks. Though the boys never carried out this 1954 threat, the incident was proof enough that Fazl Fotouhi had a most delicate...
...film The Last Time I Saw Paris, involves a man who sowed quite a few wild oats during the stock market boom. He returns after the death of his wife to reclaim his daughter from his sister-in-law, who blames him for his wife's death. Seven-year-old Rachel Whitman is most fetching and unaffected as the young daughter. Phyllis Ferguson is completely believable as the sister-in-law, mixing resentment for her toiling and skimping with a warmth and tenderness. James Stinson plays her sympathetic husband with suitable low pressured earnestness. Roger Moldovan is more than effective...
...Playhouse 90 last week staged a remarkable drama of the real-life achievement of a remarkable woman. When she was only 21, Anne Sullivan of Boston went to Tuscumbia, Ala. to be coach and tutor to seven-year-old Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf. Annie's first act was to thrust a doll into the hands of her pupil. "When I had played with it a little while," recalled Helen Keller years later, "Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger...
...Mary Schoenheit, 47, of Centertown, Mo. , and William Cheney, 35, of Eldon, Mo., might not have caused much stir. But Mrs. Schoenheit was formerly a public-school teacher in Illinois, and Cheney now teaches at the Eldon high school. This fall they independently decided to keep their seven-year-old daughters out of school and teach them at home. Reason: both felt that the local public schools are not doing a good enough...