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Ambo was ordained a priest, together with his brother, in 1958. His first assignment was Boiani, fourth largest Anglican mission district in the diocese. To tend its 7,000 natives, scattered through the rugged southern reaches of the Owen Stanley mountain range, Ambo often swam storm-swollen rivers in his shorts, was lucky to cover 20 miles in two days of tramping...
...required by Soviet protocol, the first scientist Gushchev and Vasiliev interviewed was Aleksandr Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (TIME cover, June 2 1958) "We must learn to dream," he said. "We do not always care to dream, nor are we always capable of dreaming, but without dreams, prospects do not exist and without dreams man, the scientist included, is halted in his progress...
Roman Gods & Abe Lincoln. Originally, the city fathers had no grand design in mind.One of their first purchases was made in the early 1800s to decorate the city waterworks, and it consisted of wooden figures by William Rush, the famous carver of ships' figureheads. From Sculptor Randolph Rogers in 1871 came a statue of Lincoln. In 1887 Alexander Milne Calder, grandfather of the mobilist, did an equestrian bronze of Philadelphia's Civil War hero, General George Meade. Frederic Remington produced a Cowboy; Daniel C. French did an idealized female Justice; Augustus Saint-Gaudens carved a bust of President...
...Coach Tommy Prothro showed up at a booster luncheon to explain why the finest football team in the school's history had an indifferent 5-3 record. As Prothro brooded over his trials, a sympathetic partisan asked: "What's the good word, Tommy?" For the first time in days, Tommy Prothro smiled. "Terry Baker," he said...
...Right now he has the most impressive record in college football. Going into last week's game with Stanford, Baker was running and passing so well that he led the nation in total offense. Last Saturday Baker averaged a fat 5.4 yds. per carry, scored the first touchdown as Oregon State defeated Stanford...