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...secretary tried to complete the gallery by sketching Leontief himself during one of his lectures. She had to give up; "He moves too fast," she said. On and off the lecture platform, Leontief walks with a quick and jaunty stride; he talks with the same compelling enthusiasm. A friend, remarking on the fact that Leontief usually nurses one drink through a cocktail party, pointed out: "It takes everyone else two or three drinks to reach the same state of ebullience he's in all the time...
...jail, spent mopping floors and getting his "aptitudes" tested, Wanger was sent off to the county's honor farm at Castaic, 50 miles from town. There he was put to work as a librarian. Between his bookish chores, Producer Wanger hoped to swing back into the old stride that had helped him turn out such hit movies as Algiers. His own occupational therapy project: working on a movie called Kansas and Pacific, which he plans to produce at Monogram after his release...
...depression, the new governor was forced to slash state expenditures 32%, reduced the number of state departments from 102 to 18, wiped out 26 boards of trustees and substituted one board of regents to run the state's higher-education system. He was just getting into full stride in the middle of his first term when Georgia's Senator William J. Harris died. Governor Russell ran for the unexpired term, beat Veteran Congressman Charles R. Crisp, dean of Georgia's house delegation, in a red-hot primary, and went to Washington at 35, the youngest member...
Tall (6 ft., 1 in.) and as slim as in undergraduate days, Dr. Wood walked to the dais with an athlete's loose-jointed stride and crisply announced that he would take "as short a time as possible, so that we may proceed to the main program" (27 highly technical papers). He was as good as his word. Into little more than ten minutes, he compressed a sketch of progress in medical research, practice and teaching as it appears to Young Turk Wood...
...Stuffy McInnis choice. Ward pitched three innings of relief against Holy Cross, and looked a little wild but given the starting assignment, he usually settles down. Rufe Webb may be the other possible starter, he lasted form innings against M.I.T. last Wednesday but is about ready to hit his stride...