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...Olympic record by 3 ft. 7! in. Puffing mightily, O'Brien finished second with 62 ft. 8| in., a bare 4 in. ahead of Arizona's 20-year-old Dallas Long. O'Brien tarried only long enough to give Nieder a handclasp and the thin sliver of a smile, then retreated to the stands where he admitted candidly: "School's out. Parry choked...
...continent where complex constitutional problems breed and sting like mosquitoes, no place has a more complex problem than Nyasaland. A British protectorate, Nyasaland is a stringbean sliver of hills whose 2,720,000 African inhabitants are desperately determined to dissolve their homeland's 1953 forced merger with the two Rhodesias into the white-dominated Central African Federation. Fortnight ago, when delegates from Nyasaland and Britain sat down in London's ornate Lancaster House to debate a new deal for the little land, experts predicted failure. Peppery little Dr. Hastings Banda, idol of Nyasaland blacks, had threatened to walk...
...done," she explained to a pride of society-page lionesses in Detroit last week, "but ; silent partner." Underneath her carapace of reserve Pat Nixon carries the ambitions and anxieties of any other woman. She worries about her children and gives herself wholeheartedly to them during the 10% sliver of private life. (Once, when a withering Washington heat wave threatened a promised Sunday picnic. Pat simply moved the lunch hamper and the family to the floor of Dick Nixon's air-conditioned office and carried on from there.) Recently a young friend asked about the rigors of public life...
...March 8-was barely 20 weeks away. The gavel would call the Democratic convention to order in Los Angeles in less than nine months, with the Republican convention in Chicago only two weeks behind. And soon after the hunter's moon of 1960 had waned to a sliver, the U.S. would elect a new President...
...ever-hovering Secret Service, to find out what bait the others were using. A neighboring cruiser shared its successful white feather jigs, and another provided wire lines for deeper trolling, but nothing worked until, on a tip messaged from a third helpful sportsman, the President ran into a sliver of luck: off Sandy Point, using a nickel-plated spoon, he hooked a single 20-in., 4-lb. bonito, hardly worth a tug on his heavy tackle...