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...work is involved with the comforting constancy of "hatch, match and despatch," as Bishop Wilmot likes to call it. Out on the Eyre Highway, isolation has taken its toll on the young station and roadhouse workers to whom Murray also ministers. "A lot of people think they're going out there to get away, but they take their problems with them," he says, "and a lot of them don't last terribly long. There's not much to do in places like Cocklebiddy, and a lot of people turn to alcohol." As with the stranded motorists he regularly finds...
...close of the game; 1441 copies were sold in two hours. The experiment was so successful that the tradition of the football extra never died. After the 1893 Yale football game, in Springfield, an extra "was sold in Cambridge which "came off the press twenty seconds after the last despatch was received." After the Pennsylvania game, the extra "was ready for sale five minutes after the game was finished...
Amherst News Bureau, April 20 U. S. Office of Education officials in Washington said that they had opposed inclusion of the clause and received Amherst's notification with sympathy.... UPI despatch, April...
Winston Churchill wore an unusually subdued look as he stepped up to the despatch box in the House of Commons last week. As Minister of Defense, the old warrior, whose name and appearance Britons instinctively associate with bulldog-ging it through, faced a painfully ironic task. He announced that Britain's $13.1 billion rearmament program, which the Labor government inaugurated, will have to be cut back sharply. "There will be a lag," said Churchill glumly. "We shall not succeed in spending the ?1,250 million [budgeted for] this year. Some of the program must necessarily roll forward into...
...same evening the Associated Press carried this ominous despatch: "Boston, Nov. 19--A federal grand jury today indicted Manuel D. Craveiro of Seekonk on three charges of liquor law violations. The charges stemmed from the operation of an illegal still in Seekonk last August...