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...treaty was pushed along by the big stick of Teddy Roosevelt, whose roughriding diplomacy virtually ensured long-smoldering resentment. As noted only last year in a Panamanian-made documentary film, The Treaty No Panamanian Signed, Roosevelt's Administration received inside help from Envoy Bunau-Varilla, who was not a Panamanian but a Frenchman. Bunau-Varilla, it turned out, was less interested in the well-being of the newborn country than in the realization of his years-old dream: completion of the canal...
...Since I was 10-years-old, I've wanted to be All-American," McInally says. "Last year, when I was picked to the second team All-American squad, well, shoot, it was the greatest thrill of my life...
John Mills was a fish. Twenty-six years-old, he had been working as a guard for less than a year. During that time, he had done little more than put in time. Perhaps because he recognized that as a guard he was no less imprisoned than the cons he oversaw, and that most of them were older, bigger, more experience prisoners than he, Mills had acted with tolerance when he had acted...
Beck was only an 18-years-old sophomore when Penn played the varsity in the Blockhouse on January 9, 1951. Sophomores are edgy, inexperienced players, liable to make mistakes; thus it is understandable that he was held to eight field goals and five free thrown for a scant 21 points. Penn started a three year mastery of the Crimson, winning 61-47. A month later the friendly confines of the Palestra helped Beck only slightly-he scored one more field goal for 23 points, and Penn won again...
...booth keeps its usual hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day during the summer. But the 64-years-old Fitzgerald estimates an increase of 1000 inquiries a day from summer visitors. And the questions are always more insane than at any other time of the year...