Word: squatness
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...better friend in Latin America than squat, affable Dr. Eduardo Zuleta Angel, chairman of the U.N. Preparatory Commission and Colombian ex-Cabinet Minister. But last week, back in Bogotá after a Washington visit, Dr. Zuleta Angel thought it time to speak sharply of what he had heard...
...study medicine at Yale when one day he picked up a lump of clay and "knew right off" he wanted to be a sculptor."But when I switched over to art," he says, "the world lost a promising surgeon. I mean someone useful as well as ornamental." Now a squat 64, his round brown eyes stare frankly at the world from above a salt-&-pepper beard which is bushy enough for a Lower Slobbovian. "I shaved it off in 1917," he remembers, "and Great God! For three weeks until I could grow it back, I was the Invisible...
...Varsity stroke, graduated this June as did Oliver Filley, the Jayvee stroke. Bob Stone, the captain and number four oar, and Stuart Clark, number two oar, were both Seniors last year and Bolles will have to replace them. Two other men from the Jayvee boat, Bim Chandler and Squat Stewart, are also gone, as is Al Petite, the Varsity cox. College coaches are used to rebuilding and Tom Bolles has already started trying out new strokes. He has built many champions before...
Seven years ago, a squat, powerful Negro girl named Pearl Primus, who had just graduated in biology from Manhattan's Hunter College, was ringing doorbells in search of a laboratory job. She did not find the job, but she walked into an NYA group that started her dancing. Last week, at the University of the Dance at rustic Jacob's Pillow, Mass., where Pearl Primus was a guest artist, students saw one of the U.S.'s most spectacular dancers in terrific action...
...they did not mark an airport. One of them was the pilot flame in a squat, chimney-like waste-gas furnace, set in a field of oil and gas storage tanks owned by the Colonial Beacon Oil Co. As the plane glided in, it narrowly missed the great, fog-shrouded tanks. A little way beyond, it hit the soft chimney a few feet from the top, disintegrated, threw one body between the chimney's two walls and hurled the others into the pilot flame at the bottom of the pit. Workmen reached through trap doors with steel hooks...