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...Charley! How 'bout that for the shortest campaign in history ... Naw, I'm not a bit down in the dumps about...
...addition to lively anecdotes, Deford, a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, provides mundane business details and splendidly unmemorable facts: Arizona's Jacque Mercer, the 1949 queen, was not only the lightest winner, at 106 lbs., and the second shortest, 5 ft. 3 in., but the last contestant not born in a hospital. Hefty appendices should be especially valuable to 25th century anthropologists. They contain such data as winners' measurements, figure trends (waists getting narrower, hips and busts balancing at the ideal of 35½-22½-35½), and the fact that there have been 228 contestants whose first names...
Only Aksai Chin, which lay along the shortest route between China's Sinkiang province and Tibet, was really important to Peking; neither area meant much to India. In 1958, when an Indian patrol confirmed rumors that the Chinese had built a road across Aksai Chin, Nehru felt compelled to act. He reiterated angrily that India's borders were "not negotiable" and dispatched troops to the disputed areas with orders to establish Indian outposts and "clear out" the Chinese. Evidently, Maxwell says, Nehru believed that Peking was too timid, weak or unconcerned to do much about the "forward policy...
...make poor business partners. For many an entrepreneurial Pop the gladdest moment of a lifetime is when his No.1 son enters the family firm. For many an obliging son it would be wiser if he never set foot in the place. Once looked on by young men as the shortest road to success, taking over a family business is now seen by more and more of them as a fast way to a nervous breakdown...
...ankles too many hours not "to prove myself one more time." He has. A favorite with local fans, Murphy has permanently settled in San Diego with his 4-ft. 11-in. wife Vernetta and their infant daughter Tiffani Dawn. Says Calvin: "We've got to be the shortest family in either league...