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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Einstein? The questionnaire and scoreboard, says Grosse Pointe Realtor Paul Maxon, "have been very successful, have kept property values up, and are approved by at least 95% of the people out here." The whole idea of the system is to keep out people who tend toward "cliqueishness," "Old World customs," and "clannishness," e.g., "an Italian fruit vendor." Furthermore, real estate men point out that Grosse Pointe has a number of Polish, Greek and Southern European people scattered throughout the suburbs. Says Realtor Maxon: "I am sure Albert Einstein would have been accepted here...
...breathtaking Mount McKinley and the whole Alaska range. Moose tracks appeared in the slushy tops of the frozen lakes, and there were beaver tracks and the tracks of the beaver trappers. Running water broke through the melting surface of the wide, twisting Susitna, and vehicular traffic was warned to keep off. The yawns of spring were cracking the frozen vastnesses of Alaska...
Knowing Khrushchev's fondness for the simple peasant phrase, both writers keep their notebooks filled with proverbs, historical references and even religious quotations that can be used if the occasion arises. Since Nikita talks on any and all occasions, the two usually prepare plenty of stock speeches before a trip abroad, with the quips written in. Nikita may insert a few remarks about the weather or a witticism culled from the typewritten review of the local press, which he receives every day when abroad...
Although Martin's vault last week equaled the highest ever recorded,* it probably will not be recognized as a world record. To keep it from blowing down in the face of a stiff wind, the crossbar was placed on the vaulter's side of one of the upright standards-thereby making it just a bit more difficult to brush off. But the vault was still enough to serve warning to Olympians that the U.S., in addition to Gutowski and Bragg, has its high-flying Goose...
...Montreal's real strength lies less in its headlinemakers than in its top-to-bottom power. Said a rival club official last week: "They've got so much talent they can keep guys like Ralph Backstrom and Billy Hicke on the bench for a year. Then when they get in the game, they beat...