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Deputy Labor Leader George Brown had to run a gantlet through Wellingborough public schoolboys with Tory leaflets stuck in their boaters, who chanted "rubbish" every time he opened his mouth. "I take it for granted that you're an expert on it," he shouted back. Brown proved himself no expert on the subtleties of British economic life when he promised that Labor would cut mortgage rates to a ludicrously low 3% from their present 6% levels, which might appeal to house-hungry slum dwellers, but which to most informed Britons would merely sound like confirmation of Sir Alec...
...quiet years, an average of 600 a day crossed over. In the weeks of Torschlnsspanik (gate-closing panic) just before the Wall went up Aug. 13, the number rose to an astounding 1,700 a day. Last month, defying the walls, watchtowers, guards and dogs, about 860 ran the gantlet to West Germany, about half through divided Berlin and half across the zonal border. For October the total figure was even higher: about...
...night of Oct. 24, Nishimura tried to run Oldendorf's gantlet, suffered six murderous destroyer attacks, steamed on toward Oldendorf's battle line with only battleship Yamashiro, heavy cruiser Mogami and destroyer Shigure still in action. Oldendorf had achieved the naval commander's dream: with his battle line he had capped the T of Nishimura's little column. At 0419 Yamashiro went down, taking Admiral Nishimura with her. Mogami got away but was sunk in the pursuit that came later, leaving Shigure the only ship afloat of Nishimura's force...
...students grabbed stones, tree limbs or bicycle pumps, marched into the grounds of Asunción's largest high school chanting: "We will be victorious or die." The cops slammed 30 tear-gas shells into the school grounds and flogged the youths through an Indian gantlet of two rows of police, who beat the students as they fled...
...novel's guinea pig hero is Richard Terrell, a peacetime chemical engineer and wartime captain in the British army. An Afrika Korps stick grenade sends him into amnesia for ten days and lands him at Duncanford, "the best-run nuthouse in England." There Dick runs the gantlet of tranquillizing drugs, insulin and electric shock treatments and doubletalk ("idealization of the phantasmal reorientation") from one of the "headshrinkers." After two years or so, Dick is released with a nervous tic behind his left ear, and the vaguely damning words "constitutional inferiority" stamped on his army discharge papers. His wife...