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...circling hawks, and fuss around them like anxious hens. This week, as usual, they will sit around hotel lobbies in St. Moritz, discussing other skating mothers who are out of earshot-and their daughters. Mrs. Scott is understandably possessive and protective of her daughter, but does her best to avoid the infighting among "skating mamas." She wants Barbara Ann to stay as she is: winning titles by trying harder and being more precise than her rivals. But it is Barbara Ann herself who seems to have most to say about what she is going to do -and she is gradually...
...Department of National Defense, she learned tenacity. In the barnlike Minto Club, not far from her house, she practiced her first figures;-learning to do eights, brackets and counters ; to skate on the inside or outside edge of the runners (never on the flat of the blade); to avoid the "wobbles" which leave wavering traces...
...Tokyo the neighbors used to step aside to avoid his arrogant, abusive snarls and vicious manner, but none dared criticize Fifty Bells; he was a soldier trained to fight for the Emperor. "He is the finest shepherd dog in Japan," said Kazuo Akai, Fifty Bells's devoted master. But despite the boast and despite his own arrogant strutting, Fifty Bells never got a chance to show his mettle...
...hustled off to Bucharest on a larger mission. Rumania's boss woman and fellow Communist, Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, gave him a welcome fit for a Balkan king. At his disposal was a palace just vacated by ex-King Michael's Aunt Elizabeth, who had decided to avoid Communist Ana's iron mop by following her nephew to Switzerland. Between champagne toasts and speeches brimming with declarations of love for Soviet Russia, Pauker and Dimitrov signed, in behalf of their countries, a 20-year pact of alliance...
...important genes, Szondi says, determine people's lives & loves. In the field of romance, like attracts like-to disaster. Lovers with bad mental and emotional characteristics, caused by "sick" genes, should avoid marrying people with the same type of bad genes. An apparently healthy man with a schizophrenic grandmother, Szondi claims, is likely to fall in love with a girl whose ancestors suffered from the same kind of insanity. Their children, of course, would inherit a double dose of gene-damnation...