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...retired physician, wily, wiry Sir Milton, 65, has his work cut out for him. For all Sierra Leone's wealth in diamonds, some 85% of the population is illiterate, and per capita income is a meager $56 a year. Eight of ten Sierra Leoneans eke out a living on the land, but the nation must still import foodstuffs. "We will need help to develop our natural resources," says Sir Milton, adding pointedly, "and we would like to look first to our old friends." Firmly pro-Western, Margai has already made Sierra Leone the twelfth member of the Commonwealth. Conspicuously...
With the national championship riding on every point, Yale's undefeated squash team won a pair of late, five-game matches to eke out a shaky 5-4 victory over the Crimson Saturday afternoon at Hemenway...
Desperate to eke out his income, Ginger enlists as a driver for a diaper service called Tiny Ones. He dons a battle jacket, military cap, sky-blue trousers and knee-length rubber boots, but the uniform of the diaper corps is not enough camouflage. Some home-town Dubliners spot him on his route and gleefully fire off letters to the old country reporting the comeuppance of proud Ginger Coffey...
...ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole. Little Buckety dies when he falls off a bronco at the rodeo. Author Leahy's Indians prove too willing victims of civilization. But between the indifferent sea and the mountains, the Indians and little Jerrod eke out a few moments of great tenderness...
When the two teams met again in 1911, the Crimson was embarked upon a period of football greatness. Princeton managed, nonetheless, to eke out an 8-6 triumph that fall, and in 1912 the Crimson had to struggle...