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...Wolsey's best chance to advance in the world lay in the church. He went as a scholar to Oxford, excelled his fellows by becoming a bachelor of arts at 15 (he was known as the Boy Bachelor). He was ordained a priest before he was 30. A tireless writer and an administrator with ruthless business acumen, Wolsey went after church posts like a modern tycoon buying up companies. He became Royal Almoner to young King Henry VIII on his accession in 1509, within three years was privy councilor and below the King the strongest figure in the government...
...year-old Turkish sultanate. Blindly bent on lifting his countrymen from Ottoman medievalism to Western modernity in one short haul, Ataturk converted Turkey into a facsimile of a parliamentary republic, fought an unending battle to break the influence of the Moslem clergy. Under his tireless prodding, Turks found themselves obeying not Islamic law but the Swiss Civil Code, writing not in Arabic script but a new Romanized alphabet, wearing not the fez but a strange Western headgear the name of which, Ataturk felt obliged to explain...
...Breaking the 880-yd. and 800-meter freestyle swimming records (TIME, Jan. 20) was so easy for Australia's Latvian Immigrant Jon Konrads, 15, that the tireless teen-ager barely paused for breath before splashing back into North Sydney's Olympic pool and churning past four more marks. He finished the 440-yd. grind in 4:25.9, which was a 400-meter record as well. He sprinted 220 yds. in 2:04.8, setting a new 200-meter mark in the process...
...dream of financing capital-starved entrepreneurs ("The small guy who's on the ball") and making a profit to boot had become too important to ignore. When Graham landed in India with funds raised from free-enterprising Americans, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru himself sat down with the tireless enterpriser for a half-hour's talk and wished him all success. Krishnamachari not only approved, but last week eased import restrictions on needed machinery for Graham projects and promised that all profits could be taken out of India...
...Latter-Day Roman. As SACEUR, Norstad is a great contrast to his tireless, hard-driving predecessor. "When General Gruenther wanted to know how many seats there were in an auditorium, everybody trembled; now we just tremble when there is something worth trembling about." The modesty that was one of Norstad's "faults" at West Point is still with him. When he was first elevated to SACEUR, he tried to continue his old practice of slipping into SHAPE unobtrusively by a side door, abandoned it only after his public information officer firmly told him that he must use the front...