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...crux of the plot appears soon after. Parks is grabbed as a hostage, is recovered by his own clan who are then ambushed after they have just thrown a shake-and-be-friends banquet for the rival clan (following all this?) Parks has just time enough to grab his sword and change in his photogeuie, canary-yellow fencing jacket before he sets matters right. Tempers have quieted down in the end, but the colors are still blazing...
Socialist Premier Cyrankiewicz was smugly happy himself. At the customary Kremlin banquet, more than half the members of the busy Politburo had turned up-an unusual honor. Moreover, he had had an hour's visit with Stalin, who was in a big-brotherly mood. What had they talked about? Soon after the Polish mission got back, accounts began to go around: they had chattered about the world situation and about left-wing socialism; Stalin believed that there was a place for socialists in a "people's democracy" if they stay far enough left; Stalin did not believe there...
...practically everything an unwilling aspirant can do, except milk a cow. In Virginia he uses a mushmouf accent; in Texas he lines it with rawhide. In a union hall, wearing a miner's cap, he shouts for an eight-day wage, a two-day week; at a discreet banquet for bankers, he whispers for a two-day wage, an eight-day week. Elsewhere, discussing the problems of inflation and deflation, he takes his stand fearlessly, without compromise, "For Flation." He also picks up an honorary Ph.D. from the Edgar L. Eubanks College of Animal Husbandry and Modern Fertilizing Methods...
Varsity coach Dick Harlow was guest of honor as the J.V. football team formally ended their season with a banquet last night in the Union upper common room...
...Crimson ball-packer Chip Gannon, and Vince Moravec '47, Varsity captain, were honored with awards Saturday during the Pepsi-Cola Company football banquet at the Waldorf Astoria in New York...