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...Journal had supported the losing ticket with more than 240 column-inches of editorials. The paper did not have to wait long for the showdown. At City Hall on election night 2,000 Murray supporters spotted five Journal reporters and advanced on the newsmen chanting: "Throw 'em out!" A flying wedge of police separated the reporters from the mob. At another end of the building, chief Journal Photographer Eric Groething, 32, raised his camera over his head and warned four angry men who had backed him against a wall: "The first guy that touches me-I'll break...
...only 17 are rated as likely prospects. College authorities estimate that, of the students who sign baseball contracts, 75% never go on to get their college degrees. "It's the damned scouts' fault,'' says Bibb. "They paint a rosy picture to the kids, promise 'em anything. The kids don't have sense enough to know any better...
...survey also indicated that em-mine if any predictions could be made about a college student's future business success on the basis of his college record...
...version of The Lord's Prayer. "I'm not strictly country boy, and I'm not strictly pop," says Ernie. "You know I couldn't top Roy Acuff's Grand Ole Opry stuff, and I couldn't beat Como. So I mix 'em, and the people like it fine...
...from Loneliness. For austere, scholarly Ngo Dinh Diem (pronounced 'n go din d'zee-em), President and Premier of the Southeast Asian republic of South Viet Nam, Ike's invitation to make an official state visit was a triumph almost as great as Viet Nam's freedom is a shining vindication of U.S. foreign-aid policies. Less than three years ago Diem was a lonely, almost unknown Vietnamese patriot and onetime provincial governor living in self-imposed exile from French colonial rule-among other places, in the U.S., where he spent several years as a guest...