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...objective liberal press" as burying delinquency stories on the obituary pages. When newsmen such as the Atlanta Journal's Managing Editor William Ray tried conscientiously to dig deeper by demanding a racial breakdown of the 644 students expelled from New York schools as troublemakers, they ran afoul of school regulations that forbid such identification...
Dave Skeels at 123 ran afoul of Dave Auble, while Bob Kozol lost to Carmen Molino at 130, and John Watkins to George Willis...
Captain Bob Foster, wrestling for the first time this season, took the highest honors for the varsity, as he placed fourth in the 167-pound class. After scoring easy wins in his preliminary rounds, Foster ran afoul of the tournament's outstanding performers, Dave Johnson, a Pitt standout. Johnson scored a quick first period takedown, but Foster just as quickly reversed, tying the score at two-all. Johnson however escaped and later added a reversal and riding time...
Touchy after jailing a lawyer for one hour for contempt of court, the judge ran afoul of a TV film cameraman in the corridor from his chambers to the courtroom, shoved the camera aside and bullied the cameraman into surrendering his film. Next, he sent word from the courtroom that he would brook no picture taking in the corridor. When he emerged, photographers from the Miami Herald and station WTVJ began shooting. The judge ordered bailiffs to lock them in his chambers, then telephoned their bosses...
...Hatchet in Hand. Before he ran afoul of the Senate, handsome, well-tailored Max Gluck had made himself a millionaire in a remarkably successful business career (Darling Stores Corp., a women's wear chain with 140 stores in 27 states). He was also a successful Kentucky horse breeder (in 1955 his Prince John won a record-breaking purse of $157,918.50 at New Jersey's Garden State Park). Semiretired, at 57, he decided this year that he would like to serve in a Government post. "I just wanted to do some good," he explained last week. "I didn...