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...Moursund. Acquired in 1961 and 1962, they are the 2,186-acre Three Springs Ranch along the Pedernales in Blanco County and the 4,500-acre Haywood Ranch in the lake region of nearby Llano County. They consist chiefly of pastureland on which cattle, sheep and Angora goats thrive. Moursund explains his interest in such land acquisition with typical understatement. Says he: "The more little places you have, the better...
Writing in the New York Times Magazine, David Boroff, an associate professor of English, said that Harvard nevertheless qualified as a university where such intellectuals "flourish." "Scholar-gypsies who follow not the curriculum but their own intellectual bent" also thrive at Columbia, Berkeley, Wisconsin, and N.Y.U., Boroff reported...
Allen is a consistent performer who like teammate Hewlett, seems to thrive on long distances. He does not possess a notable finishing kick, but manages to place himself near the front of the pack early in the race...
...chances for a Kennedy takeover, however plausible they may seem now, are not probable. Wagner enjoys extremely amicable relations with President Johnson, and they, not a junior Senator, control the jobs upon which organization thrive. Furthermore, while Nickerson is a Democratic hope, he will encounter strong opposition from better-known gubernatorial possibilities including Wagner himself and upstate Congressman Samuel Stratton...
...Hodgkin's orderly mind seems to thrive on a diet of clutter and clatter. After graduation from Oxford, when she went into research, her first lab was in a dingy basement under the university museum. It was her precarious exercise to climb a ladder to a gallery while carrying the delicate crystals with which she worked. But whatever the circumstances, she maintained an elegance of appearance and achievement. No distraction was enough to spoil the work that led to a thorough knowledge of the penicillin molecule, and to the discovery of the structure of Vitamin B12, the recalcitrant molecule...