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...where computing machines sometimes seem in order to tote up basketball's astronomical scores, California's Coach Pete Newell, 44, is a refreshing eccentric: he stresses defense. The Golden Bears, 1959 N.C.A.A. champions, often score fewer baskets in a night than some other teams rack up in a half. The trick of it is that their opponents score even fewer. In the Los Angeles Classic tournament over the holidays, they held West Virginia's All-America Jerry West to one field goal as they won, 65 to 45. The team's top star is cloud-capped...
...Dulles)?and the idea of Ike's exchanging visits with Khrushchev came up. "We began to work on this thing," Eisenhower recalled months later, "and I gave the subject to two or three of my trusted associates in the State Department and said, 'Now let's try to tote up the balance...
Little Manabu tended rice and vegetables between the rows of coffee trees, gradually grew husky enough to tote the 88-lb. coffee sacks. He taught himself to read Portuguese at night by kerosene lamplight, hoarded scraps of paper to make sketches on. But the heavy farm work, plus malaria and amoebic dysentery, bore down relentlessly on the family. The father proved too thin and weak for field work, devoted his waning life to drinking pinga (sugarcane spirits), finally died of cancer. Mabe, the eldest of the seven children, borrowed enough money to become a small-time farmer, struggled to keep...
...break" to let Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Vatican diplomat, make a hasty departure from the Vulcania without suffering the embarrassment of crossing their line. A troupe of Yemenite dancers walked ashore with their luggage on their heads, and pursers and stewards from the U.S.S. Constitution helped 983 home-coming travelers tote their baggage ashore. Perishable goods were in danger of rotting on the piers and in ships' holds, and U.S. grain exports for the Far East, South America and Europe piled up at dockside at the rate of 11 million bushels weekly...
...from millionaire cronies such as Baltimore Colts' Owner Carroll Rosenbloom. ("Who wouldn't pay $1,000,000 to get control of $10 million?" asks Chesler.) With Universal's cash, Chesler bought Baltimore's American Totalisator, which owns and leases 80% of the racetrack "Tote" systems that automatically figure and post bets, odds and winnings. By swapping stock, Universal later acquired General Register Corp. (ticket machines for movies and racetracks) and C. P. Clare & Co. (electronic relays). The company, then renamed Universal Controls, paid cash for Canada...