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...those who do get jobs, many work for less than 75? an hour. Others stay unemployed, huddle together six to eight in slum rooms, become desperate. What does a man do then? Says Sterling Tucker, director of the Washington Urban League: "I guess he might go out and snatch a purse...
...phenomenal Vic Niederhoffer, however, has a better chance to snatch the singles title away from a host of former champions and challengers. Niederhoffer has a bye in the first round, and will meet Bob Hetherington, Yale's number two player, Friday afternoon. Hetherington was runner-up behind teammate Ralph Howe in the intercollegiates last year, while Niederhoffer ranked only fifth; but the Harvard junior should have no trouble winning this time...
...amazing junior must now be ranked among the top five squash players in the country and has a good chance to snatch the U.S. crown away from Sam Howe in the championship tourney in February. Niederhoffer upset Howe 3-1 yesterday...
...deep that it often turned against him and his own, and made all love, all trust, all joy impossible-this past, this endless struggle to achieve and reveal and confirm a human identity, human authority, yet contains . . . something very beautiful . . . That man who is forced each day to snatch his manhood, his identity, out of the fire of human cruelty that rages to destroy it knows, if he survives his effort, and even if he does not survive it, something about himself and human life that no school on earth-and indeed, no church-can teach . . . It helps to explain...
Locking Up Hughes. Trippe's opportunity to snatch off TWA opened up two years ago when Millionaire Industrialist Howard Hughes was forced by a consortium of banks and insurance companies to put his 78.2% of TWA's stock into a voting trust in return for $165 million in loans to the airline. Under Charles Tillinghast, 51, the new president appointed by the trustees, TWA lost $38.7 million last year. In desperation, Tillinghast began seeking a merger partner...