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Rebel Report. From his first day in office three years ago, Frei has been hounded in Congress by a coalition of Communists, leftists and Socialists that has blocked almost all of his major reform legislation. Now the far left is making a determined grab for the reins of his own Christian Democratic Party. Six months ago, a rebel faction led by Jacques Chonchol, Frei's director of agricultural development, managed to ram through a party resolution permitting Castro's chief subversion agency in the Hemisphere, OLAS, to set up a branch office right in Santiago...
...Charles de Gaulle, the flight of the Concorde will be a personal victory. As one observer put it: "The Concorde will get into the air if De Gaulle has to grab it by the tail and throw it up himself." However, financially pressed Britons have shown dwindling enthusiasm for the project...
...than "matter". 11) from an old English schoolboy's rhyme: "Alligator, crocodile, custard pie/All mixed together with a dead dog's eye/Spread it on a sandwich nice and thick/ And swallow it down with a cup of cold sick" 11a) If this isn't Capitol's inaccurate estimation of "Grab a lock of", then the Beatles have created a nonsense in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, one that (intentionally) sounds like the first phrase. 12) i.e. panties. 13) mumbled in the background. 13a) cross between "textbook" and preceding word. 14) hippies with pot. 15) i.e. they're snide...
Eastern hockey leadership fell into the grab bag Saturday night as Boston College upset Harvard, 4-3, and Brown scored a shocking 6-3 win over Cornell...
...unions were asking for a 30% hike over a two-year contract; the papers offered an 8% increase. Bargaining was amiable, and most of the contracts were not due to expire until the end of November. But the Teamsters, whose contract expired earlier, were impatient and anxious to grab the lead in negotiations. They struck the News; the Free Press, which bargains jointly with the News, closed down as well. Said one union official: "The Teamsters jumped the gun, that...