Word: shepherd
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What TIME had done to Evanghelos Georgakakis was to tell his story, "The Losing Winner," in our March 3 issue. It was the story of the deep inner powers of a man, a onetime Cretan shepherd lad, blind, with an artificial right hand and only one finger with any sense of touch on the left. Yet, at 33, using Braille and tape recorders, he had topped all 361 candidates in the Athens bar examinations. Despite this, as the story told, he was unable to find a job. No one, it seemed, wanted a blind and crippled lawyer...
...suite from his bright, good-humored opera Háry János became concert-hall staples. His life's output was remarkable for its uniform excellence; his unabashedly melodic First Symphony, for example, written when he was 79, evokes the same atmosphere of Transylvanian winterscapes and shepherd's watch fires on the puszta as his earlier works...
...fact was all too apparent to little Lynn. Instead of leading lady she played a shepherd in the school Nativity play. Her only line: "I see a star." She developed such a virulent indifference to everything theatrical that one day, when her father asked if she wouldn't like to come watch him play Hamlet, she quite seriously said thanks all the same but she'd rather stay home and watch her favorite soap opera on the telly. Soon she developed a compensating mania?she went crazy over jumping horses, and by the time she was 16 had littered...
...were understandably astounded last May when Evanghelos Georgakakis came out ahead of all the other 360 candidates in the Athens bar exams. Reason: Georgakakis, 33, has no eyes, an artificial right hand, and only one finger on his left hand that has any sense of touch. A onetime Cretan shepherd boy who received his disabilities from a German mine explosion in 1944, Georgakakis uses the tip of his tongue to "read" Braille, got through law school by tape-recording and memorizing 60,000 pages of legislation. Highly impressed by his showing, the bar examiners took an unprecedented step: they urged...
...successor: Patrick Eugene Haggerty, 52, who as vice president and then president during the firm's remarkable growth matched Jonsson's financial know-how with his own expertise in electrical engineering. Haggerty will stay on as chief executive officer, but will be replaced as president by Mark Shepherd Jr., 43, executive vice president since 1961. As for Jonsson, Texas Instrument's biggest stockholder, he will keep busy in retirement as mayor of Dallas, a job he has held for almost three years...