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...ordinary one. Their adopted son Jimmy, who also had an IQ of 147, had been so bored in public school that he had flubbed his studies, made constant mischief, was in danger of becoming a painfully shy neurotic until his parents placed him in a stiff private school geared to the superior student...
Orrin Hein, another sophomore, will wrestle at 147 lbs., although junior Bob Crook will give him a stiff fight for his normal 137 spot. Crook won five of eight last year as the varsity regular...
...there are touches. Margaret Leighton's face, for instance, is an excellent playground of contrasts, especially when she is acting the real novelist, puzzled by passion. Moreover, and most fortunately, Ralph Richardson acts her husband. He is casually perfect, and finds a flourish even in the stiff upper lip of, "There's only one thing more to say. Apparently I haven't made it sufficiently clear. I happen to love you very much...
...immediate sight-it is only necessary at these affairs to track the Moscow press like sucker fish to locate the big sharks at once. I went into the next room. Suddenly, as if the smoke and the crowd had cleared for an instant, there they stood, Mikoyan very stiff, Gromyko looking amazingly like Dick Nixon, bemedaled Malinovsky, a benign, kewpie-doll Bulganin and then, as two shoulders parted, on a level with them was the pink, pleasant, unsmiling face of Nikita Khrushchev...
...trunk lines will ask for increases on all but about 30 of 256 commodities. Coal will probably get hit, and the Western roads want higher rates for their eastward shipments of farm goods, lumber and lumber products. Even the 25 Class I Southern roads, which have traditionally rebelled against stiff rate increases for fear of losing business to trucks, plan to join in the request, even though they may not seek boosts for pulpwood, tobacco, alcoholic drinks. Finally, all the rails are expected to petition for higher charges for loading and unloading export-import freight, and for permission to charge...