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Think about it. The most blessed team of all time--Notre Dame--is named after the Virgin Mary, and for decades Notre Dame slew the heathens of the NCAA. When former Coach Gerry Foust suffered his baptism by fire, however, he once ordered blue uniforms because, he said, blue is the color of the Blessed Virgin (seriously...
Less than a month after North Carolina Businessman Robert J. Brown removed himself from consideration, Todman, a native of the U.S. Virgin Islands who has held five ambassadorial posts, said in Copenhagen that he did not believe anyone should be appointed to succeed retiring Ambassador Herman Nickel until the U.S. has a "policy that finds credibility with the South Africans . . . and the rest of the world." A day later the State Department contended that Todman had not meant to criticize U.S. policy and had been quoted "out of context." In any event he obviously had no wish to take...
...group's founder, vanished like their children. Critics today argue, with some validity, that the mothers got away with what they did because their demands were more humanistic than political, and because Argentine society tends, like most of Latin America, to worship the mother as an extension of the Virgin Mary. (In Spanish, the phenomenon is known as marianismo.) But the undeniable fact is that, in a society in which the newspapers (with one exception) were silent, the courts were a farce, the police formed an arm of the military government and members of opposition groups were being tortured...
...blue riband" traditionally awarded for top speed, and, presumably, the Hales Trophy glorifying it. But the ocean-liner fraternity cried foul. The curator of the U.S. Merchant Marine Museum, where the trophy is housed, refused to yield it to "a toy boat," as he called Branson's $2.3 / million Virgin Atlantic Challenger II, with its two turbocharged, 2,000-h.p. diesel engines. Retorted Branson: "To say (the award) has only to do with passenger liners is a lot of codswallop." To back his claim, he has decided to create his own trophy for the next successful Atlantic challenger. Branson will...
...sugar broker from the Virgin Islands named Sosthenes Behn founded International Telephone & Telegraph, hoping to link callers around the world much as AT&T had connected phone users in the U.S. For decades thereafter, Behn's successors at ITT remained true to his vision. Even when ITT's acquisitive chairman Harold Geneen began buying dozens of companies in such fields as aerospace, bakery goods and cosmetics in the 1960s and 1970s, he kept ITT firmly planted in global telecommunications...