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...Team. This arsenal of technical prowess is commanded by a slender wisp of a man (5 ft. 7 in., 148 Ibs.) with thinning grey hair, twinkling blue eyes, a Boston accent, and an almost embarrassing diffidence. Among strangers, Lockheed Chairman Gross will go far out of his way to avoid admitting that he heads one of the nation's largest industrial corporations. To occupational questions from fellow airline travelers, he usually responds: "I'm in manufacturing." Recently a famous European actress seated beside him at a Hollywood dinner party asked the inevitable "What do you do?" Replied Gross...
...thin twigs was handed to Shastri's eldest son, 32-year-old Hari Krishnan. According to custom, he walked three times around his father's body, then put the flame to the pyre. Priests poured on ghee and incense. Within seconds, the flames erupted, illuminating the wisp of white under the logs. Soon all was ashes...
Author Mackay's hero is a 23-year-old dwarf whose chief problem, as someone remarks, is that "it's only his mind that's warped, he's got a lovely little body." After a series of disjointed misadventures, he ends up drowned, a wisp of seaweed hanging from his sad little foot. What sets Author Mackay apart from her despairing friends, however, is that there is a giggle buried deep in the center of her sadness, and it bubbles up at odd moments-such as the moment when a husband grows so incensed...
...Radcliffe cheerleader. Now that mays sound strange, because the two are obviously mutually exclusive. A Radcliffe girl spends all her time studying, occasionally stopping to push a wisp of long dirty hair out of her eyes or to pull another book from her handy green bookbag. But she doesn't run around in a short red pleated skirt in the freezing cold for three and a half hours, waving pompoms, shaking her hips, and wheeling carts.(carting wheels...
Auctioning off the documentary remains of her son-baptismal certificate, a few letters-brought in $7,165. Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, 58, then announced that she would use the money to fly to Russia to pursue the will-o'-the-wisp of the innocence of her son, Lee Harvey. "The Russians haven't turned over everything to the U.S." about her son's stay in the Soviet Union, she said. "I thought that, being his mother, I might build up enough evidence to ask that this case be reopened." By some morbid twist, one Oswald letter from Russia...