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...ANGELES, Jan. 13--Walter O'Malley's melodramatic search for a home for his waifs from Brooklyn produced another cliff-hanging episode today. The Dodgers almost made it to Wrigley Field, only to halt on the threshhold...
...Democratic Party's nomination for President in 1960, Jack Kennedy has left panting politicians and swooning women across a large spread of the U.S. Taking off from the 1956 Democratic Convention, where he lost the nomination for Vice President to Tennessee's Estes Kefauver by a cliff hanging 38½ votes, Kennedy campaigned for the national ticket in 24 states-more than any Democrat except Adlai Stevenson and Kefauver. This year he has had more than 2,500 speaking invitations (they stream into his office, the mailboxes of his family, and even to Boston's Catholic hierarchy...
...elder by half an hour, had disappeared at the age of 13 and was declared legally dead. Suddenly Granger as Peter was confronted by Granger as Gerald. But was Gerald genuine? Peter thought not, and for good reason: he had killed little Gerald by shoving him off a cliff. Gerald turned out to be a contrite fake, schooled in his masquerade by a conniving uncle (Vincent Price) with an eye on a hunk of the estate. Peter ended up dead at the bottom of his favorite cliff, and Gerald walked off with the heart of Peter's sister, whose...
Cookies & Assurance. Mother Veronica's stand was cheered through all of San Marino (pop. 13,000). Parents climbed up to the grey stone convent atop a 900-ft. cliff to pledge support through the double iron grille in the visitors' room, received in turn a whispered assurance, plus the traditional cookies and convent-made bubbly white wine. Firm backing for Mother Veronica's defiant ways came from her bishop, who specifically ordered her to keep the school open, exhorted all Catholics to "support the sisters in their struggle...
...Siren Left. Only 30 miles before Geelong, an Aussie Ford missed a sharp turn at 70 m.p.h., skidded through a fence and wound up with its rear wheels hanging over a small cliff. That first casualty lost the rally its only car equipped with a siren for scaring off kangaroos...