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...meeting got back to his office and found a wire-service report on Hodges' statement. Said he derisively: "Guess what I've just picked off the wires?" Near week's end, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey vociferously joined Hodges out on the tax-cut limb...
Dodds continually speaks of the threats to life and limb that await the college president on each side of his narrow path. The faculty wants an understanding academic, the governing board wants a realistic manager. The president must maintain communication and friendliness with students and faculty, but never try to run the place on charisma alone. He must visit all areas of his university but never create the impression of snooping, or suspecting, or by-passing...
...Commerce named him one of the U.S.'s ten outstanding young men of 1953. Billie Sol traveled to Seattle to receive the award at a Jaycee dinner. While in Seattle he uttered some prophetic lines: To be successful, he said, "you have to walk out on a limb to the far end-for that's where the fruit is. If it breaks, you learn how far to go next time." Another top-ten award winner that year was Tennessee's Frank Clement, then the youngest state Governor in the U.S., later famous...
...Resnick so eager to die? As of last week, that question remained unanswered. He had a personal-injury insurance policy with Lloyd's of London, which would pay $50,000 in the event of his death. But it was also payable for the loss of an eye or limb. "Why would he go that far," asked his son Martin Resnick, "when he could have arranged an accident to lose an eye or limb just as easily?" Even his story of being a cancer victim did not hold up. An autopsy disclosed that he was suffering from a heart infirmity...
...Shriver-Teddy Kennedy is expected next week. Already on hand as advance guard was Mrs. Pierre Salinger. Nearby Sugarbush, sometimes referred to as Mascara Mountain, is a favorite haunt of society as well as snow bunnies, the well-rounded sports girls who hang their stretch pants on a shapely limb but don't go near the snow...