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Prestige from Rank. Neither strong nor furious, except occasionally with their wives, most Shriners seemed less like noble pranksters than a mobilized cross section of middle-class Americans. They claim an unrestricted membership (though Negroes would be welcome, none have tested the claim, preferring a similar, separate-but-equal Negro Shrine). The organization does include a substantial number of Jews, who are apparently more interested in what one Imperial Potentate called "the opportunity for fun and play and mirth on a truly magnificent scale" than in the Shriners' proud Arabic ancestry...
...setback in the Premier's bold, uphill battle to weld a cohesive government for the Congo, and he was furious. Accurately enough, he accused Ben Bella and the others of running ruthless dictatorships that produced martyrs no less worthy of sympathy than Lumumba. "To Monsieur ben Bella, who shouts loudly, I answer with equal force," "Tshombe said. "Do as we do, free your political prisoners...
...years and 51 days after John Bloom's stock was listed, it fell with a mighty crash. Nine minutes before the exchange closed, Rolls announced its voluntary liquidation, thus bringing down the cornerstone of Bloom's $70 million empire. In one of the City's most furious trading sessions, Rolls skidded from $1.18 to 15? a share...
...people. But he wanted and demanded that the South cure itself. In the words of the rebellious Chick Mallison, looking at his relatives with sudden pride: "That was part of it too, that fierce desire that they should be perfect because they were his and he was theirs, that furious intolerance of any one single jot or tittle less than absolute perfection -that furious almost instinctive leap and spring to defend them from anyone anywhere so that he might excoriate them himself without mercy since they were his own and he wanted no more save to stand with them unalterable...
...Golden Bears, rowing at a furious 39-40 beat, recorded Wednesday's best time, 6:22.4, winning their heat as expected. But the comparative times were essentially meaningless, since a strong wind of 12-15 miles per hour cut down the times of the crews which rowed after California...