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...varsity track team climaxed its most successful season in history by picking up unexpected, but invaluable points in what are nominally its weakest events Saturday, to crush Yale, 77 to 63, at Soldiers Field...
...through a trust fund left by its slain publisher, circulation had dived from 55,000 to fewer than 20,000, and wealthy Moroccans would lend no money. Last week Maroc-Presse tasted the bitter fruit of its victory: the paper that bombs could not intimidate folded under the crush of its deficit...
Having battled the crush at the Russians' Claridge's tea-fight (see above) without much success, Harold Stassen and his wife were on the point of going home when up barged Andrei Gromyko. "Have you met Khrushchev yet?" asked Gromyko, who is Stassen's opposite number on the five-man U.N. subcommittee meeting in London to discuss disarmament. Seconds later Stassen found himself in an inner sanctum, peeling grapes with the Kremlin's masters. For two hours he listened to the bluntest Russian talk yet on the subject of disarmament...
...mind, it is true, often seems a mighty dull place to spend 310 pages, but even the dullness has its fierce effect. Without it, the author could hardly convey how awful it is to be Milt, how vile it is to run from life like a frightened pig, to crush everything in the path, and in the end (as a pig's sharp trotters sometimes will) to slash your own throat...
...forget this day!" Thousands of additional guards were called out to reinforce the already formidable Franco police forces in northern Spain. In a country where strikes are forbidden, the absence of arbitration machinery makes it difficult for the dictatorship to settle the strikes in any way but to crush them...