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...lead. Venturi murmured to himself: "Boy, you've got to get off your butt and go." Result of the new "go": he shot three successive birdies (the 13th through 18th) and came home through the back nine in 35. Middlecoff, meanwhile, ran into poor luck. His eyes were swollen from hay fever, and someone had borrowed his jacket, which contained the medicine he needed. Jittery and red-eyed, he fell apart, finished with a slow 40. That was right back where he started the day-four strokes behind Venturi. "If it's windy like that tomorrow," he said...
...University of Baltimore jumped ahead of a varsity, stiff and swollen after a day's rest, and kept the lead although outscored by the Crimson in the second half...
...billion more goods in February than the year before, recorded $3 billion more in orders. Employment headed for a first-quarter record, while the Labor Department reported take home pay at a high for the month of February, 5% better than in February 1955. Structural steel fabricators closed their swollen books for February with 40% more orders than in the same month a year ago. Steel scrap rose as much as $6 a ton in one of the sharpest rises in history, and March steel output was expected to break all monthly records. As business loans continued to rise...
...doubt that he relishes his work. His geniality has not rubbed off under the stress. His singing and his original songs (sample title: The Squaws on the Yukon Are Good Enough for Me) are famous in Washington. Office staffers have learned to ignore his flagrant practical jokes-like the swollen and bloody fake finger he sometimes wears. He has to fight his weight (and at 225 Ibs., the weight is winning). To the casual observer he seems to be a bald and bouncy gladhander, as carefree as a prankster at an American Legion convention...
...East to West flow of novels has swollen from a trickle to a stream in the past 15 months. From Japan have come Some Prefer Nettles and Homecoming, together with a reissue of The Honorable Picnic. A Chinese woman living in Hong Kong drew a portrait of present-day China in the Rice-Sprout Song. India contributed Amrita and Nectar in a Sieve, the latter by the author of the latest Indian entry, Some Inner Fury. The bulk of these novels pursue one theme-the disruptive impact of Western manners, morals and ideas on the semifeudal, arch-familistic patterns...