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Early last month, Smale sent a request for an renewal of his grant to Haworth, the NSF director. Haworth wrote back, saying in part, "that, in light of Professor Smale's performance in the administration of the present grant, we cannot tender a new grant to the University (Berkeley) based on the proposal in its present form...
...more concerned about Peggy's youth. The United Church of Christ minister who performed the ceremony, University Chaplain B. Davie Napier, detected no family hostility to the match. He discussed the problems of intermarriage with Peggy and Guy, found them well aware of the risks. As to their tender ages, Napier said: "Peggy, for her years, is amazing. She has a kind of maturity, a solidity, going way beyond her years. And Guy, he's one of the loosest, calmest, easiest fellows -of any race." Guy's mother concurs...
Encouraged by the partial healing of Hardin's knees, McCurdy still worries about sophomore Keith Colburn's left ankle. Colburn, who ran a blistering 1:48.0 half mile last sping, has a tender Achilles tendon. He hung in Saturday's race for about three miles, but then had to fade as the ankle acted...
...with the meals he consumes in triplicate or the multiple birthdays, anniversaries and holidays that must all be observed. New Year's Eve, for instance, he celebrates an hour ahead of time with Giulia and children (explaining that he has an orchestra engagement to keep); then follows a tender phone call to Adela and children, then a nightclub date with Marisa. His best friend's child has to be baptized twice so that both Giulia and Adela can be godmothers...
...scion of a wealthy Baltimore brokerage family, Woodville showed his precocious talent at the tender age of eleven in a small but accomplished watercolor portraying a dying general. Properly educated, he studied anatomy at medical school for a year, then set off to train in Germany when he was 20. There, in Dusseldorf, he learned the romantic lighting and theatrical staging then in vogue, techniques that worked as well on U.S. local color as on Rhine landscapes. Though he lived abroad for most of the brief ten years before he died at 30, his fondest subjects remained the Eastern Shore...