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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Bowles still wears Madison Avenue's grey flannel suits and button-down-collar shirts, has rarely been seen in formal clothes. For recreation he is a real canvas sailor, reluctantly gave up his 50-ft. yawl for a small sailboat when his children grew up. Twice married (he and his first wife were divorced in 1933), he has five children; Son Samuel passed up a Rhodes scholarship to teach school in Nigeria; Daughter Cynthia did a stint as a nurse for the World Health Organization in India...
...tutor-governess, was sent off at seven to St. James's School, where at nine he had a physical breakdown from trying to buck the system. Churchill was Harrow's bottom scholar (and spent years mastering English while others went on to Greek and Latin). He twice failed Sandhurst's entrance exams, barely passed on his third...
...obtained tenders from B. & O. stockholders for 55% of the road's stock, enough to ensure control. The victory was a personal triumph for the C. & O.'s fast-moving President Walter J. Tuohy, who personally canvassed hundreds of B. & O. stockholders for support, twice flew to Switzerland to argue his case with Swiss bankers whose depositors held 20% of B. & O. stock (they backed him). The Central, which was also soliciting tenders of B. & O. stock, refused to say how many it had received. But the figure was estimated as low as only...
...broiling sun awaiting an "identity check." Passengers arriving by air were searched on arrival, then forced to stoop down and pick up their wallets and other belongings that Salumu's men had thrown to the ground. Daphne Parks, a consular official of the British embassy, was slapped twice by gendarmes, who then unzipped her dress. Priests and congregations more than once were ordered out of church at gun point, forced to run around...
...Crimson's Bruce Hunter won twice, taking the 100-yard freestyle, and tying the Army pool record in the 56-yard freestyle with 0:23.4. Another Crimson double winner was sophomore George Mulligan who was the middle distance events, the 100 and 440 freestyles...