Word: grand
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Balboni Hits Grand Slam...
...even greater extent than in any other sport, the outcome of the traditional Yale race determines the success of the crew season. Capture of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in July would be the supreme achievement in rowing but before that there is a large debt to be paid back against the Elis on the Thames of Connecticut the second Saturday in June. And the Crimson has the crew...
...Jackson, Governor Coleman acknowledged that he had received an FBI report, refused to reveal its contents. There would, he said, be no prosecution for at least six months. That was because Mississippi courts have already ruled that it is reversible error to call a special grand jury to consider only one case. The ruling was convenient for Coleman. Since he is himself running forthe state legislature and backing a hand-picked candidate to succeed him as Governor, it could be mighty embarrassing to have the Parker case come up before the August primary...
...Hock, 44, the able young trade unionist who established peace in the island after the bloody 1955 riots by jailing half a dozen leaders of the P.A.P.'s Communist wing, failed utterly in last-minute efforts to unite the moderate and right-wing parties in a "grand coalition to stop the rampaging P.A.P...
Although no amount of post-mortem analysis can altogether remove the aura of a grand failure from Carles's work, it now appears, in retrospect, that Carles stood so alone because he was so far ahead. As a young man he had gone to Paris, fallen under the spell first of Edouard Manet and then the postimpressionists, sipped coffee with Matisse and Brancusi. Back home in Philadelphia, where he taught from 1917 to 1925 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Carles slowly digested his European lessons, then moved on to a symphonic orchestration of colors...