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Last week Tokle once again tackled Bear Mountain, where he figures the maximum safe jump is 160 ft. Going all out against two crack Finnish entries, he soared an estimated 162 ft., then swerved sharply and tore a ligament in his right ankle. But even with the patriarch of U.S. ski jumping sidelined for a few weeks, the Tokles are still in the business. Arthur Jr., II, has been jumping since he flew 20 ft. at the age of two, is now competing in junior meets. Says Arthur Sr.: "All he needs is practice...
...behind a typewriter and pecked out a column. It was the first he had written in nearly two months; but whatever Winchell had to say he kept to himself. "I went to the typewriter from sheer boredom, doing nothing," he said. "I played around with a column and then tore it up. I'm just not ready to pick up again...
...missionaries stopped her, Kateri went to Indian extremes of asceticism-lashing and branding herself, walking barefoot in the snow, putting hot embers between her toes and sleeping in brambles. She was soon venerated by her fellow Christian Indians as a living saint, and when she died at 24, they tore up her clothes for relics. Ever since, a mounting list of cures and wonders has been attributed by both Indian and white Catholics to her intercession. Said Pope Pius XI: "Her life itself is a miracle...
...battle of New Orleans last week was fought both on the streets and in the courts. Methodically, relentlessly, the courts tore down segregation's façade. A three-judge federal panel denied the legality of interposition-the odd notion that a state government may interpose itself between the judgments of the U.S. Supreme Court and the people. Interposition, said the court, "is not a constitutional doctrine. If taken seriously, it is illegal defiance of constitutional authority...
...Costa Rica and mother of six, Daisey had kept her daughter home when the school reopened after the Thanksgiving holiday: "I was so scared. Who am I to fight the whole state of Louisiana and the Governor, I asked myself." But later, she had second thoughts. "My conscience tore at me. I knew if I gave up, the minister would give up too, and there'd be no white child left...