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...piano, Monk is clearly tending to business, but once he steps away from it, people begin to wonder. Aside from his hat and the incessant shuffle of his feet, he looks like a perfectly normal neurotic. "Solid!" and "All reet!" are about all he will say in the gravelly sigh that serves as his voice, but his friends attribute great spiritual strength to him. Aware of his power over people, Monk is enormously selfish in the use of it. Passive, poutish moods sweep over him as he shuffles about, looking away, a member of the race of strangers...
...annual budget. At Roosevelt's frosty first night last week, a grand total of $2,350,342 passed through the mutuel machines, netting the sovereign State of New York a tidy $235,000 in tax revenues - and moving New York's Republican Congressman Paul A. Fino to sigh: "Horse-racing is no longer the sport of kings - it's the sport of Governors...
...Yard breathed an audible sigh of relief-this week as two previously winless, teams finally hit the victory column. The basketball squad, after seven straight defeats, staged a second half rally to whip. Brown 72-64, and, the fencing team came up with it a first win is three outings by squeezing past Bradford Durfee...
...prosperity," then, in great detail, answered Defferre's criticisms of the French constitution. "Our constitution is good," said De Gaulle. "It has given proof of itself for more than five years," and was "neither rejected by the people nor invalidated by events." Assuredly, he declared, neither those who "sigh for the confusion of the past" nor "those who aim at a totalitarian regime" can willingly accept the constitution. "But let us keep...
...sled runs. Finally, last week, Austria's own Toni Sailer, who won all three Alpine skiing events at the 1956 Olympics, took a trial run down the men's down hill, pronounced it "fantastic-like out of a test tube"-and all of Innsbruck heaved a mighty sigh of relief...