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...about for a bit longer. Half of the stainless steel wires used to stitch together his torn thigh have been removed. Doctors predicted that the Governor would leave the hospital in a week or so, should recover with little more to show than a collection of scars, possibly a stiff wrist-and a horrifying memory...
...Jose State is the favored team entrant today, while Zwolak faces stiff competition for the individual title against such national stars as Dan Murphy of San Jose and Geoff Walker of Houston...
Grade Grubbing. Fast spreading beyond Eastern campuses, this year's top concern on the campus is competition so stiff that at the University of Michigan, for example, one faculty man reports: "When they ask all the high school valedictorians in the freshman class to stand up, every third person rises. It's kind of frightening...
...manner suggested that sex wasn't everything, that exuberance could give vitality to even the middle-aged and the homely. She palpably could never see herself as a romantic, and the arranged embrace at play's end with the second-rank character always seemed a little stiff, as if her corsets were binding...
When Montecatini was hit by rising labor costs (up 16.6% last year) and stiff competition from U.S. and other European chemical makers, its profits fell from $23.9 million to $21.6 million in 1962 despite a sales rise of 6.6%. The company was hard pressed to pay its debts and, to make matters worse, the cost of building its new petrochemical plant at Brindisi on Italy's heel overran its $160 million estimate by almost 50%. The setback was enough to topple fast-running Managing Director Piero Giustiniani, the driving force behind Montecatini's expansion, and leave full command...