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...soft-spoken Texan, Merrifield is a graduate of UCLA and the 19th Nobelist to be associated with Rockefeller. He is the father of six children and for a while was the leader of a Boy Scout troop. When not at the lab, he spends his time happily tinkering around his house in Cresskill...
...fact that the soft-spoken teenager's presence on the British squad may have kept one or two native Britons off the team has gone almost overlooked in this country, but not there--and certainly not in South Africa. Budd's presence in Los Angeles, combined with naturalized citizen Sydney Maree's spot on the U.S. track team, indicates that natives of South Africa can overcome the barriers erected by the apartheid state's exclusion from international competition...
...seemed routine, except for one elderly worshiper who whispered to her pew partner: "It should never have happened." She meant that soft-spoken James Nelson, 39, is one of the most prodigal of sons ever to be approved for the Christian ministry. On Oct. 30,1969, near Glasgow, Nelson got into a row with his mother over a girlfriend and, in a fit of rage, began bludgeoning her with a truncheon. When it broke, he went after her with a brick. Nelson dragged her body out to the garage, changed his bloody clothing, washed up and drove into the city...
Handsome and soft-spoken, Bailey is not reluctant to raise his voice when he thinks promoters are exploiting drivers by making tracks too easy to give poorer drivers a chance, or cutting back on prize money to save expenses. "I'm brave enough and frustrated enough to speak out," he says. "I would like to help the sport...
Though more soft-spoken than his predecessor, Castro is equally committed to social justice. Born in Montevideo, Castro was one of nine children of a Spanish immigrant mother and Chilean father. The family was Roman Catholic, but as a youth he played with children from a nearby Methodist church. Says Castro, a short, slender man with an infectious smile: "I ultimately found Jesus Christ through my personal contacts. It was not a church-to-church conversion...