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Otherwise . . . In Kingston, Tenn., Cyclist J. B. Cook, booked for public drunkenness after a mile-long flight in which he wove in and out of traffic and pedaled hard to get away despite the patrol car's spotlight and siren, mumbled with chagrin: "There's a lot of play in these handle bars...
...cannot be delayed, and it will not be denied." But when the last yea had been shouted, Knowland's justice had been denied. Voting for the jury-trial amendment were 39 Democrats and twelve Republicans, voting against were 33 Republicans and nine Democrats. To Knowland's chagrin, Majority Leader Johnson had scooped up such Democratic moderates as Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Ohio's Frank Lausche, Rhode Island's John Pastore, Washington's "Scoop" Jackson and Warren Magnuson, such Republicans as Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, Indiana's Homer Capehart, and West Virginia...
...Commander in Chief Isoroku Yamamoto, as he sat amid his battleships several-hundred useless miles to the northwest, the master planner could only groan. "The game was up," a Japanese yeoman recalled. "The members of the staff looked at one another, their mouths tight shut. Indescribable emptiness, cheerlessness and chagrin...
Officers of the group are John F. Maher '60, Holworthy Hall and Houston, Texas, president, and Thomas F. Glick '60, Straus Hall and Chagrin Falls, Ohio, secretary. Advisers are Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, Wallace McDonald, director of freshman scholarships, and Frederick L. Holborn, teaching fellow in Government...
...adjust to account for stock splits. Currently, the divisor stands at 4.566, meaning that each point in the average is equal to $1 divided by 4.566, or about 22?. Thus, a 6-point jump is only about $1.32 in actual dollar value, a fact some amateurs learn to their chagrin when they rush to make a killing as the Dow average rises...