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...race. Crewman Bunny Rigg, burly editor of the Skipper magazine, cracked slyly: "Don't bet against us." Few did. When the winds freshened to gale strength on the fifth day out, other boats were plagued with seasickness. But Finisterre's shipshape crew kept every possible inch of sail flying, whipped past far bigger boats laboring under storm rigs. "That blow came through like a buzz saw," said Mitchell later. "The boat was knifing out of the water and porpoising. It was wet below, but we had our hot meals on schedule...
Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah was resisted every inch of the way by the Ashanti chiefs who clearly foresaw the loss of their power in a single nation run from Accra. In Nigeria, the ancient feud between the Yoruba of the west and the Ibo of the east, and their joint contempt for the Moslems in the north, is a major obstacle to peaceful nationhood. Kenya's warlike Masai dread the thought of national power in the hands of the clever Kikuyu; and for the majestic (6 ft. 6 in.) but backward Watutsi of Ruanda-Urundi, education...
...industrial average in February broke through its previous low and had been followed by the rails breaking through their lows, the theorists' signal for a bear market. But last week the industrials rose through their previous resistance level of 636-638, and the rails came within an inch of rising through their previous high of 146.56. If they break through, the chartists will be ready to concede that the present "bear" market is over...
...laymen, it resembled a double bird cage. A silicone rubber ball, three-fourths of an inch in diameter, is encased in a slim, steel-wire cage in which it can move freely up and down. This in turn is enclosed in a second cage. In a ten-hour operation recently, Surgeon Harken removed one leaflet of Mary Richardson's faltering valve. Into the slit in the aorta wall he stitched a piece of Ivalon sponge, to which the bird-cage valve was attached so that it snuggled into the heart-aorta junction. Mrs. Richardson's tissues grew into...
Christ, on the other hand, stands "for the completely definite, for the Man who, in taking on our human nature, took on every inch of it (save sin) in all its density, and who so obviously did not march too quickly or too glibly to beauty, the infinite, the dream." Lynch adds: "I keep before my mind the remark of W. H. Auden that no one cares much who were the cousins and the sisters and the aunts of Apollo whereas we are completely interested in every detail of the life and being of Christ...