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...monotonously from dawn till dusk. As Communist troops drew nearer and nearer, the panicky ticket holders began to riot. After Claire Chennault's Civil Air Transport made its last flight out of Mukden, those who could set out in automobiles and mule carts to run the Communist gauntlet to Yingkow...
...protohumans probably hunted baboons by blocking all but one exit of a baboon cave colony, then clubbing the apes from the side as they ran, the gauntlet...
...Hermann, who last year ran a student orchestra under his own name, essayed the gauntlet of University recognition three weeks ago and obtained clearance for the name Harvardians...
Then violence broke out. In South St. Paul there were bloody clashes as non-strikers ran the gauntlet of massed pickets. About 300 pickets had formed a wall, eight deep, near the Swift & Co. plant's main gate. Sheriff Norman Dieter and a force of 21 cops moved up to read the law: a court order had set a limit of 18 pickets. When no one moved, the sheriff rammed his force against the wall. A few minutes later the bloody, battered cops retreated...
Meet the Press (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual). Harold Stassen runs the gauntlet...