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...trucking companies, but said he would award additional damages plus attorneys' fees and court costs to the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association. He invited the truckers to draw up an injunction for the court to issue to curb the rails' anti-truck campaign. Wrote Judge Clary, in an acid 200-page decision: "There is a strong possibility that the defendants are ready, willing and able to continue their campaign to destroy the good will of the long-haul trucking industry...
...dispute over Goa, that pimple of Portuguese sovereignty on India's west coast, has been described by Jawaharlal Nehru as the "acid test" by which India judges other nations: any friend of India's must agree that Portugal should get out. Last week Goa became something of an acid test for India...
Wearing a hurt look and sounding indignant, pugnacious Joe Curran, 55, president of the National Maritime Union, sued acid-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler for $550,000, claiming that a union leader's reputation is damaged when he is characterized as a "racketeer," "Communist...
...about to erupt into violence at the start of integrated classes. Example: he called in a Little Rock city official, displayed a schoolbook with a square section of pages cut out ("Just right for hiding a gun"), and a few water pistols ("The Negroes were gonna fill them with acid and shoot at the white kids"). The city official, far more impressed by Faubus' political power than by the "evidence," signed a statement supporting Faubus...
...year, they had ground five varieties of fruit in a blender, whirled the fruit mixed with pure ethyl alcohol in a centrifuge to separate the solid matter, run the remaining solution through ion exchange columns to remove the salts, and then removed the water to isolate the pure amino acid extract. This year's group of five students will start to identify the acids. Silber pays his boys and girls 35? an hour ("enough for bus fare and supper money, but not enough to make the project a job"), often has to shoo them...