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Night fell, and rumors spread. King was in town and the people clung to that. "I sure hope King has something good to say about all this." Some local Negroes displayed revolvers, threatening. "There are 40 of us armed like this, and we've each picked out the cop we're gonna...
...fashion's delight and men's despair, women and foundation garments have been inseparable for years. Feast or famine, thick or thin (mostly thick) they have clung to each other, lending ironclad support here (with a corset), whaleboned comfort there (with a waist cincher), out-and-out camouflage (with a wire-braided bustle or a foam-rubber bust) as far as the eye could see. Trouble was, the eye could never see far enough to know for sure where the padding left off and the girl began. Now, at long last, it is all quite clear. Thanks...
...Crimson took a 23-12 lead early in the game, but excellent shooting and superior rebounding enabled Dartmouth to tie the score at 25-25. (Harvard's leading rebounder, Barry Williams, missed the game because of an injury.) The Crimson clung to a tenuous lead throughout the remainder of the first half, and left the court with a 45-42 lead...
Long after the Alianza para el Progreso was launched in 1961, many Latin American governments clung to the convenient belief that it was just an other U.S. giveaway project. "It seemed well-meaning," as one top Latino puts it, "but rather Utopian and probably futile." Now, at last, that view seems to have changed. Last week, as diplomats and economists from a score of nations gathered in the Peruvian capi tal of Lima for the third annual full-dress review of the Alianza, there was encouraging evidence that most Latin American nations now accept its goals and are working...
With the aid of a disputed call, Franklin and Marshall's wrestlers clung to an early lead and edged Harvard 15-14 on Saturday night. F and M withstood a last-minute surge by the Crimson that almost reversed the verdict...