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...Martin, Jim Schlaeppi, and Willie Thompson will make or break the race, according to Stowell. "Martin's as ready as he has ever been," said Stowell. "Schlaeppi has been bothered by foot trouble, but we're counting on him and on Thompson. And Mac Brown could easily upset the applecart...
Political Life. After World War II. as more and more of Morocco's independence leaders succeeded in shaking the French applecart, Mohammed became increasingly dangerous to French influence, was summarily exiled in 1953 to Corsica, then Madagascar (along with his wives, five children). After rebellion flared in Morocco, the French were forced to bring him back in 1955, to the song of triumph from his own people. Thereupon he set out on a program toward constitutional monarchy. Though still autocratic in his ways, he has inspired modernization of his people and the country, remained devoted to the West...
...Senator John Kennedy, an undeclared but unabashed candidate for his party's presidential nomination in 1960, accepted an invitation to speak to Mississippi Young Democrats at Jackson, in the deepest of the Deep South. But ever since Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus kicked over the Democratic civil rights applecart, Kennedy's Southern friends have been begging him to back out. Their argument: anything Kennedy would say that was faintly conciliatory to the South would be used against him in the North, yet if he spoke the Northern view he would necessarily offend his Southern supporters. Jack Kennedy disagreed...
...tailored Johnny Dio, 43, seemed to have made crime pay pretty well: society had not managed to pin a hard rap on him since he served three years in Sing Sing for extortion back in 1937-40. Last week the law pushed over Johnny Dio's well-stocked applecart. In Manhattan, a General Sessions Court judge sentenced Dio and two of his henchmen, Max Chester and Samuel Goldstein, to two years' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine apiece. Their offense: conspiracy and bribery in taking $10,000, plus a promise of $20,000 more, from the proprietors...
...varsity heavy crew has everything to win and nothing to lose tomorrow afternoon when it races Penn and Navy on the Skuylkill River for the Adams Cup. The Crimson eight has to be rated as the underdog, but they have an excellent chance to upset the Eastern rowing applecart...