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...Rocky, he rambled through picturesque hamlets in a chartered bus, seemed to thrive on an endless round of "Hi there, fellah" sessions on frozen street corners. Happy, five months pregnant, stayed at home, but she managed to make the papers anyway by taking two of her four children-Wendy and Jamie-to hear the Beatles at Carnegie Hall (see SHOW BUSINESS). Rocky dropped in on Albany long enough to pose with a bunch of Boy Scouts, looking for all the world as if he were the one who had just been awarded the Eagle badge. But he devoted most...
...Independence, we were here. For more than two centuries, our foreparents labored in this country without wages; they made cotton "king," and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation?and yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to thrive and develop. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands. The main source of Negro discontent...
...were usually small-time dealers in such items as coffee and cigarettes. Today's smugglers are sophisticated businessmen who shun 50 lbs. of coffee in favor of 50 tons of steel, or deal in complex electronic calculators rather than cigarettes. Nowhere in Europe do these "white-collar smugglers" thrive more than in West Germany, where harassed customs officials figure that roughly $160 million worth of smuggled goods a year gets by them. Last year the cost to West Germany in uncollected duties was $15.5 million...
...vere, cannot harm the heart unless it is already seriously diseased or has an in adequate blood supply, said Cardiologist Paul Dudley White. The same goes for arteries, veins and capillaries. Further more, the heart and blood vessels do not merely tolerate an abundance of regular physical exercise; they thrive on it. Many cardiologists, said...
...People are no longer frightened by all that machinery. It must remain a student theater." Therefore new ways must be found to stimulate students, one being the Marlowe-Shakespeare Quadricentennial. However, Seltzer realizes that time remains a nagging difficulty; few undergraduates can manage a full production schedule and still thrive academically...