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Within the Law. In Paris, after a fruitless three-month search of France's underworld crannies, police found Bad-Check-Artist Claude Pavie holed up in his girl friend's apartment in the police headquarters building...
Reverend Dodds encountered no difficulty in obtaining teetotalers to argue for total abstinence from liquor, but spent several fruitless weeks trying to get pro-liquor debaters...
After more than two weeks of fruitless investigation, Cambridge police have not uncovered a single trace of $1,824 worth of coats and accessories stolen from three House dining halls the night of the Brown game. The police doubt that they will discover the loot, unless by chance the thieves attempt to do some pawning...
After two contentious, fruitless months on history's stage, the ancient, battle-scarred city of Kaesong last week seemed ready to be moved into the wings. There was still a chance that the cease-fire talks, broken off by the Reds, might be picked up again-but in all probability not at Kaesong...
...post-war wave of efficiency, the University tried a few years ago to diagram its hierarchy and gave up after several weeks of fruitless effort. So it is not surprising that most students are graduated from the University without understanding the administrative set-up. Actually the basic outline is fairly simple, and the confusion mainly should arise when one tries to differentiate between the stated and the actual lines of power in the University...