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John XXIII has been on the throne of St. Peter only four months, but he is already the best-loved Pope of modern times. Rome has rarely known anyone like the stout, bustling, punchinello-faced old man, who combines warmth, wit and frankness with a dignity that is free of pomp. He is an able, creative, precedent-breaking administrator with a rare humility and an ever-present concern for people. He has been readier than any other Pope in memory to leave the Vatican, a man about town who likes nothing better than to dodge his chauffeurs and stomp through...
...Beset by poor health and one crisis after another, Lennox-Boyd plans to retire from politics soon, join the family business brewing Guinness Stout...
...Americans and Western Europeans seriously argue that the West could purchase a settlement by a complicated web of mutual concessions. Just as Stalin by his insensate aggressiveness sparked NATO and the Marshall Plan, so Khrushchev had forced the West to recognize that the Berlin crisis would continue until a stout and resolute Western stand made it plain that he could not have his way in Germany. At the same time Khrushchev had made it easier for Western leaders to take the tough stand. Until last week, the crisis seemed to be a problem that agitated the professionals more than...
Trailing by a goal with only fifty seconds remaining, Yale Coach Murray Murdock pulled Jones in favor of a sixth skater. Stout defensive work held off the Elis for half a minute until the puck was cleared and stolen at center ice by Bud Higginbottom who fed to Dick Fischer. With only defenseman Bruce Smith standing in the goal Fischer fired chest high from about 18 feet, but Smith was able to deflect the disk over the cage to prevent further damage
...When the stout, one-man garment center was shot to death by a rival suitor for Miss Mansfield's shopsoiled hand, Boss Tweed was the first to assure the world that the departed had been "a man of broad soul and kindly heart." But the true verdict was given by Erie shares: as Fisk sank, they rose...