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Knighthood in 1956 has changed Bill Lyons not one whit. He still belongs to no clubs, leads a quiet life with his wife at their Georgian-Victorian country home. His only hobby, says a close friend, "is making Jaguar even better." He is also determined to make it bigger. To get more plant space, he last year bought Jaguar's venerable neighbor, the Daimler Co. Last week Sir William made his boldest move yet: he bought the Coventry plant of defunct Guy Motors, Ltd., where he plans to diversify into trucks. Aim: to have cart horses as well...
...swirling action, the goalie's best friend is a semicircle drawn on the floor at a distance of 20 ft. from the goal. An attacker is not allowed to touch this line or the goal zone it bounds. But this fact bothers the literal-minded Europeans not a whit: they simply take a running leap over the line and get off their shots while flying through the air at the goalie. A good shotmaker, usually a trained gymnast, can be 6 ft. across the line when he finally shoots, and so long as he is still...
...sterner note. Lancashire-born Preacher Griffith was taken to Canada by his opera-singer parents when he was eight, joined the ministry 15 years ago, served Ottawa's fashionable United Church for the past eleven years. He accepts the Bible as divinely inspired, is not a whit interested in psychiatry. In a church whose tradition is liberal, he is perhaps the true nonconformist: a conservative...
...Norman. Harvard's ace said he notices this, too. "I read at the end of the season how so-and-so has completed so many passes for so many yards, and then I look at my own statistics, and they're not so good. It bothers me not a whit. As dence in me. I don't want to be an All-American--I'm not that silly...
...Oxford University Union Society to hear the titans. The resolution before the group: "That this house holds America responsible for spreading vulgarity in Western society." Chief spokesman for the affirmative: Britain's wily Gamesman Stephen Potter. Voice of the negative: rotund, orotund Orson Welles, not a whit shaken by his introduction as "the best film director-actor in the world today.'' Welles readily agreed that stereotyped U.S. culture is not easily defended: "This mass reduction of human dignity makes me sick." But he hastened to absolve the U.S. of disseminating vulgarity throughout the rest of the West...