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...Smith's sluggish lead-off leg of 2:02 in the two-mile relay squelched the quartet's record aspirations. Coach Bill McCurdy had to shuffle his relay squads after Sam Robinson pulled up with a muscle strain in the preliminaries of the dash...
Repealing the Toll. Singer arrived at Scripto during a crisis year in which profits plummeted 49%. Sluggish capi tal spending, vacillating management and a reluctance to diversify were taking a heavy toll. Singer, who tried his hand briefly as a guard for a profession al basketball team after dropping out of William and Mary in 1936, had just completed four years as president of Chicago's mattress-making Sealy Inc., where he boosted annual sales from $56 million to $81 million. As he saw it, Scripto's problem was divided into two parts. First he concentrated on management...
...provided Cambridge with honest, though often-times sluggish government. Because there is no dominant political power, showdown issues are often sidestepped. Only when some sort of full or partial consensus has been reached is progress made, and this is admittedly a slow process. By the same token, it guards against excesses and protects the interest of many of the city's minorities--ethnic groups as well as the city's biggest minority, the "university-oriented" community. In a city as diversified as Cambridge, there is a lot to be said for having the broad representation that PR provides...
Lolita has been good to her creator. The market in Nabokov, sluggish until she appeared, has been bullish ever since. In collaboration with his publishers, Nabokov has sensibly kept the post-Lolita market well supplied. The Eye is the latest reincarnation from Nabokov's past, translated from Russian by the author's son Dmitri (Harvard...
...relations, the North, the South and the West were almost completely separated regions. They floated, says Boorstin, like "fuzzy islands" in the continental main. But far beneath the surface of events, forces were working to bring them together, and in the second half of his book, Boorstin traces the sluggish growth of the American identity...