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...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A day in the life of Rhodes Scholar Winston J. Churchill Jr. (no kin) from North Wales, Pa., one of the many students who have studied, over the years, at Oxford University under the scholarship program set up before his death in 1902 by the South African financier-statesman Cecil Rhodes. Repeat...
...high school in Spokane, Wash., and running only his second race at 10,000 meters, twice the length he is used to. "Too young," advised Soviet Coach Korobkov solicitously. "You should not let him run such distances until he is older." For the first 14 laps, Lindgren (no kin to Blaine) stuck doggedly just off the pace. Then, just to see if he could do it, he kicked past both Russians and sprinted a lap. At the 22nd lap, he began to tire. But he heard the cheering crowd and started to worry about disappointing everybody. On he ran, chest...
...Robert Bosch, a 35-year-old electrical engineer, is only a minor corporation official; able Managing Director Hans L. Merkle, 51, is not even a distant Bosch kin. "Robert Bosch," says Merkle, "did not want the company to be shared among all his heirs. He wanted to predetermine its future course himself." Last week, 22 years after his death...
...woolly slug is concentrated in eleven states from Maryland to Missouri and Texas, but it has close kin in the Northeast: the caterpillar of the white moth, Lagoa crispata. Other common stingers are the range and saddleback caterpillars, and those of the buck, lo, tussock and brown-tail moths. Where the caterpillars are especially abundant, their hairs may fly through the air in such numbers as to bring on asthma attacks in children who never even touch the beast directly...
...kin to the Times of London, a 179-year-old daily institution...