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...board his ship, he wakes up every morning at about 6:30 for coffee in bed, takes a quick look topside before a breakfast of orange juice, eggs, toast and more coffee. The first day out he spends the morning making a stem-to-stern inspection, in which the smallest Irish pennant (loose rope end) or stubble of beard will catch his choleric...
...Surgeon) and (until she retired last year) outstanding Chicago gynecologist and obstetrician; in Romeo, Mich. Born on a farm near Rochester, Mich., tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Dr. Van Hoosen was still operating several days a week in her 80s, had gained fame by making the world's smallest appendix incisions-half an inch...
...earnest. Says he: "I made five casts and I hooked five trout, none of which could have weighed less than eight pounds. There's no other place in the world you can do that. Of the five, I boated three. The biggest was a 25-pounder and the smallest was twelve. And I got them all in just over an hour. I sat there looking at those beautiful big trout and thinking of all the years I've spent boasting about an eight-pounder I once caught in Colorado...
...gifts for endowment go toward making up the University's capital fund. Most of the gifts for immediate use are for scholarship and fellowship programs, left by or in the name of a former Harvard graduate. These latter are also by far the largest, in total sum. The smallest gifts were $500; the largest, for the Fund for the Advancement of Education...
...Twisted Isthmus . . . In population the land Chichi runs is one of the world's smallest nations. In area, it is also tiny, stretching for just 450 miles along the narrow isthmus linking the Americas -an isthmus so curiously twisted that from Panama City the sun is seen to rise out of the Pacific. The land's best known feature, the canal, runs through the ten-mile-wide, U.S.-controlled Canal Zone which splits the republic. In the bisected nation, politics are fought out in a manner as twisted as the land's geography. Since the last election...