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...must be labeled the aggressor, and that India could not stoop to appeasing aggressors. Over the weekend at Chequers, the Prime Ministers' country home, Attlee and Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies tirelessly tried to bring about an agreement between Nehru and Pakistan's Liaquat AH Khan. Crux of the matter was when and how a plebiscite should be held to determine the future of Kashmir's predominantly Moslem population. India insists that Pakistan withdraw not only its troops but also its "irregulars" (i.e., large numbers of Kashmir's own people who have rebelled...
...vehicles, gook or otherwise." A jeep marked H.Q. 35 drove up. "You see old 35 there," said Sergeant Lloyd. "That is our reserve. Whenever a jeep comes up here and needs a part bad, we take it off old 35." How did he replace the parts on old 35? "Ah, that is a professional secret. If I don't keep this stuff rolling around here, it's just my tail, that...
...Last Second. Other allergies had built up over 5½ years. Club owners could stomach Happy's sonorous ("Ah love baseball") speeches and his bourbon baritone renditions of My Old Kentucky Home, but they found Happy unpalatable whenever he tried to be baseball's "czar" in more than name. The most famous example was Chandler's year-long suspension of Leo Durocher just before opening day, 1947. Other ranklers: the 1949 suspension of Durocher for hitting a fan (later lamely withdrawn when investigation cleared Leo), an order this year to Owner Saigh to cancel a scheduled Sunday...
...into stations. Station Number One included a chair, a plain table, and a doctor who held a slit lamp and a tongue depressor. "Open your mouth," said the doctor. "Head up. Turn it left. Turn it right. Now let me look at those cars." He clicked on the light. "Ah, very interesting." The doctor checked off more spaces on the mimeographed sheet and smiled. "Station Two," he said...
...rolling in the road behind. "Stop!" he called to the driver, "you've hit someone!" The van pulled to a halt. The guards leaped out, carefully locked the door behind them and ran toward the injured man. As they neared, he stood up and fled. "Ah, well," said one of the guards, "he couldn't have been hurt much...