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Wadsworth, the victim of poor team support in his losing effort against Pennsylvania Friday, has a two and one record to date. He has improved in each outing, and a good performance this afternoon would bolster the nine's prospects for the remaining games...
...Gilbert & Sullivan Purity Champion, Oxford"). As her fame grew, she took to rapping the prestigious productions of the D'Oyly Carte troupe (a recent D'Oyly Carte Gondoliers, she announced, was "shocking: Marco came on wearing jodhpurs"). By last week Crusader Alderley had 500,000 signatures to bolster her parliamentary petition...
...share. Yet this is not cash on hand. When General sells an $895 lot for $10 down and $10 a month, it counts the full profit on the sale as current profit, even though it will not receive it all for 8Jr years. To bolster its cash position and permit it to expand, it is closing a deal with the Prudential Insurance Co., which will buy $10 million in General Development bonds...
Confronted with this setback, Ben-Gurion's ministers suddenly began to have second thoughts about raising taxes. And to bolster up his own apathetic party, the Premier called home articulate, erudite Abba Eban, 44, Israel's able, longtime Ambassador to the U.S. and the United Nations, invited him to get into politics. South Africa-born, Cambridge-educated Abba Eban will presumably be groomed to replace ailing Golda Meir (formerly of Milwaukee) as Foreign Minister. First he must get in touch with domestic problems, and learn to leaven his meticulous classical Hebrew with the kind of everyday Hebrew that...
Back in December 1956, when Batista was firmly ensconced as President of Cuba, and mainly occupied with doing what he could to bolster the sagging sugar trade, Dr. Fidel Castro and a group of his followers made the first landing on the coast of Cape Cruz. The august London Times, which is generally amused by furtive rebellions in South America, took advantage of the occasion to chuckle mildly at the insurgent invasion, and in its dryest patriarchal manner advised the rebels to put down their guns and go home...