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...decidedly more appealing. In Rome, when a Soviet reporter jeered that Clay's new fame would not buy him a seat in any Louisville restaurant, Cassius retorted: "At least I ain't fighting alligators and living in a mud hut!" He had a crush on Olympic Sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who didn't respond. In his strait-laced fashion, he married a cocktail waitress and tried to get her to adopt Muslim ways, but it didn't take; he charged in his divorce suit last year that her slacks were too tight. And in his peculiar, affecting...
With its pistol grip and nubby barrel, the instrument looks like the handy ray gun with which Buck Rogers and Wilma used to zap Killer Kane. It is actually a space-age wrench. Cordless and battery-powered, it was designed by Martin Marietta as a zero-reaction power tool to be used by astronauts for turning nuts and bolts in the weightless conditions of space...
Conspicuous among the 1,400 shareholders at the company's second annual meeting in Washington's Shoreham Hotel were two familiar chairman baiters: Mrs. Wilma Soss and Lewis D. Gilbert. As soon as Chairman Leo D. Welch called for order, Mrs. Soss was on her feet demanding to know if a proper notice of the meeting had been mailed. Welch ruled the question out of order, and a shouting match began. Finally, Welch did what many a corporate chairman has long felt like doing: he ordered Gilbert and Mrs. Soss to leave the meeting. Gilbert left with...
...Humanities; Garrett Birkhoff, professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics; Reuben Brower, professor of English; Brice Chalmers, Gordon McKay professor of Metallurgy; J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History; Carl Kaysen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy; Mrs. Wilma Kerby-Miller, Academic Vice-President of Radcliffe; Harold C. Martin, Lecturer on Comparative Literature; Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government; Edwin E. Moise, James Byrant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics; Leonard K. Nash, Professor of Chemistry; Francis M. Rogers, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes...
...Gilbert, together with Wilma Kirby-Miller, academic vice-president; Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, administrative vice-president; Ralph B. Gates, Director of Radcliffe Buildings and Grounds; and the Harvard and Cambridge police forces drew up this plan after the attempted knifing of a Radcliffe student and another attack on a head resident and student last month caused a review of the whole security operation...