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...Virgin Surface...
...frustrating six months seeking capital. Finally, in 1968, Wall Street's Allen & Co. and the Value Line Development Capital Corp. anted up $2,350,000, and Sanford founded IPS. With his new bankroll, he bought three meat, grocery and restaurant-equipment companies in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and put them together to serve the Caribbean market. They prospered, and Sanford continued to follow his college plan precisely. He bought other companies in exchange for IPS stock. In all, he acquired 13 companies-in New York, California, Florida, Arizona, Hawaii and the Bahamas-and turned most of them...
...enshrined god in Lowell. "Eliot talked about a world breaking apart at the seams from a stance reflecting personal control," explains Harvard professor Roger Rosenblatt. "What people today like most about Lowell is that he seems to be coming apart at the seams himself." But they also have a Virgin Mary-Sylvia Plath, a gifted American girl who wrote despairing verse until, aged 30, she put her head into a gas oven and died. Her poetry, taut with passion, has been aptly described as "the longest suicide note ever written...
Seconding point one, Emily D. Vermeule, Zomu?ray-Stone Radcliffe Professor, met with general approval when she read a quote in Greek. Translated, what it said was, "She is a virgin from the neck up - a woman below...
...blizzard of linguistic barbarisms ("cain't," "we's"), Humbard usually deals in congenial pleasantries about the love of God and what it can do. He touches doctrine only in passing. "People know I'm old-fashioned enough to believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, virgin-born and resurrected," he explains; he just prefers to stress "moral truths." Though he worries about such national problems as drugs and pornography, Humbard tries to preach positively. "Seek the Savior," he urges, in his usual simplification of the evangelical message, and all other moral problems will solve themselves...