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Though Celebrezze (pronounced sell-uh-breezy) is practically unknown nationally, he is well known in Ohio, where he has run up a record that stands to help him in the most diverse of Cabinet jobs. Born at Anzi in Italy while his Italian-born parents were on vacation there, Tony Celebrezze grew up in Cleveland's tough East Side, sold newspapers with his brothers on what became known as "Celebrezze Corner." He worked through John Carroll and Ohio Northern Universities, earning his way as a gandy dancer on the New York Central. Forsaking his law practice...
...team of Columbia University physicists did the improbable: using 5,000 tons of battleship armor along with the most powerful atom cracker yet built, they found another variety of neutrino. Around the world, great laboratories are already planning experiments to exploit the tiny new window opening on the unknown...
...degree from the University of Alabama with honors. He set up private practice in Ashland, became a police judge and later a prosecuting attorney. In 1925 he decided to forsake a $50,000-a-year law practice, mostly in damage suits, to run for the Senate. Though virtually unknown, he beat four other candidates in a statewide campaign conducted from a model...
When Konrad Adenauer places the traditional wreath at the Arc de Triomphe, the occasion rises above ceremonial cliche because the one thing known about France's Unknown Soldier is that he died fighting Germany. When, after jointly reviewing French and German troops, Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle attend Mass at Reims Cathedral, everyone must recall that it was once shelled by German guns...
Crossed Connections. Parkinsonism (the cause of which is unknown in most cases) is a disorder of nerve cells near the thalamus deep in the brain. The affected nerve cells keep on firing impulses for muscle contraction when the contractions are not necessary. Effective treatment consists of somehow interrupting these misfiring nerves...