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East Enders grouped in front of the cart or watching diffidently from their doorways spattered applause throughout the half-hour play, guffawed occasionally at the dock-flavored cockney. Two white-haired women joined in the responses when the family in the play took Communion with the vicar, and the rest of the audience nodded approvingly as points were hammered home...
...business. There is no room for the small business or the small union." Neither, if he had his way, would there be room for education. Snarls Hoffa: "I don't have a man working for me who don't come off a truck or off the dock. I don't have any college boys, and I don't need them...
...Sorry." Girard, his pompadour and long sideburns carefully cropped and brushed, arrived in Maebashi for the trial still under the 24-hour guard set over him since he went AWOL on a drinking spree a few weeks ago. In the dock he sat uncomfortably, gazing dazedly at the three-judge tribunal, his onetime swagger gone. When the charge was read out, Chief Judge Yuzo Kawachi summoned Girard to the witness stand and beamed at him like a benign headmaster. "You don't have to answer any questions unless you want to," said Kawachi. "Is there anything you want...
Outside the courtroom swarms of swallows twittered in the cherry trees, and various Japanese protest groups milled about urging everything from the utmost leniency to the death penalty for the prisoner in the dock. Inside the courtroom the electric fans stopped whirling because of power shortage, and everyone broke out collapsible rice-paper fans...
...Greenland. Even before the oilmen could place orders, the U.S. Defense Department asked De Long to use the same principle for a 1,000-ft. dock to help speed its Thule. Greenland airbase. Standard construction methods would have taken two years. By prefabricating, De Long cut the total time to six months. Since then, the Defense Department has ordered 17 more docks worth $16 million, rushed two to replace a wood pier that burned at Whittier, Alaska, threatening military supply lines, two more to New port News, Va., when it turned out that no docks were big enough...