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...life we don't often find military, compositional and oratorical genius combined in one man--though we had a recent example, starting with the same three letters, in Douglas MacArthur (the comparison shouldn't be pushed any further, needless to say). Macbeth must start off as an admirable person, sink into murder after murder, and bounce back somewhat at the end, winning our pity as a tragic hero despite his crimes. Not easy, but it can be done...
...Open. Then, thinking positively, he entered the tournament as an amateur and not only qualified but finished in a tie for eighth place. Two years later Johnny dropped out of Brigham Young University to turn professional. "A college degree," Johnny said, "is not going to help you sink those two-footers...
...points out that at the placid Williams campus in the 1950s, there were no civil rights or antiwar protests to teach the meaning of ethics. "Values are not so much taught as caught. Without the experience it's pretty hard for the ethics to sink in. Your education is largely a game of intellectual volleyball...
...never been unemployed. For three days I walked the streets. Though I had a bank account and a job waiting for me back at Haverford, I got an inkling of how professionals my age feel when they lose their job and their confidence begins to sink...
...will not accept it. The U.S. offices of Perera Co. Inc., money dealers, are thronged with tourists seeking to buy foreign money, or traveler's checks denominated in ten foreign currencies, before they go overseas. They worry that if they take dollars, the price in foreign money will sink farther before they reach their destinations. Nicholas Deak, head of Deak & Co. Inc., which owns the Perera offices, wonders how Perera's staff will get through the summer. "They are already exhausted, and the peak tourist season has not yet started," he says. Gold, the traditional refuge of people...