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...Then he spent two dreary months jogging or walking around the U.C.L.A. practice field, for up to six hours at a stretch. In April, under the anxious eye of U.C.L.A. Track Coach Ducky Drake, he tried sprint starts. But Johnson and his coach were most afraid of back-wrench ing jumps. At last, in late spring, Johnson took a deep breath and started down the pole-vault runway. He cleared the bar-and plummeted into the sawdust without a twinge. Johnson was back on the track...
...blunt. Complained the Jesuit monthly Miles Christi: "When priests draw their wills, 95% of their possessions end up in greedy relatives' hands, and the church is completely forgotten.* Priests always call on others to contribute to the church, but have little themselves to contribute in life and noth ing at all in death...
Chemical companies often call for molds or bacteria to make such things as citric acid for soft drinks. Airplane manufac turers order fungi to test the mildew proofing of their airplanes. Three strains of mutated Staphylococcus aureus, a con tribution from Russia, are used for screen ing anti-cancer drugs...
...craft at 35. At 47, he is a hard-working executive worth $37 million in 443,024 shares of Litton stock. It all started when he quit Hughes in the exodus of brains (TIME, Oct. 5, 1953), started his own company, which is one of the fastest-grow ing electronics firms (1959 sales: $125 million), claims to be the biggest U.S. manufacturer of desk calculating machines...
Basically, what worries most businessmen is that 1960 has not lived up to their expectations. Says Stanley Marcus, president of Dallas' Nieman-Marcus: "We all thought the golden '60s were to be a soar ing bird, not a land-based animal. Busi ness is still good, about the same as last year, which was good, but there is disap pointment because things are not as good as they were supposed to be." Disappointing Steel. The reasons for the disappointment in the economy's performance so far this year seem clear. The post-steel strike inventory buildup that...