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...core of the party to its all-highest Politburo, to be Deputy Premier of the U.S.S.R. His rise to a position within touching distance of Stalin's mantle bears considerable portent. After more than three decades, the vast power of the old Communist revolutionaries is passing into the grip of younger men whom they taught and trained...
Kirkland's grip on first place in the House "A" League Basketball League tightened yesterday, though the Deacons remained idle. Leverett upset Second-place Dudley, 40 to 38, to widen the gap between Kirkland and the Commuters...
...publicity that these Chicago sons of joy have been scattering gives no hint of what there is to smile about. More significant, however, the implications of National Smile Week are being ignored. It is obvious that, should sufficient cause for smiling be found, organized madness might soon grip the country. A popular old song informs us that "there are smiles that make us blue." A wave of melancholia caused by such smiling could easily start a wave of suicides. People obliged to smile through their tears would suffer deeprooted psychic conflicts, as well as possible internal drowning. Smiling during...
Kirkland's basketball team took a firmer grip on first place in the A League last night by trampling Eliot 49 to 31, for its seventh straight win, Eliot never was in the game as the Deacons teamwork defense and fast-breaking attack completely outclassed the last-place Elephants...
This week, González was expected to name a new cabinet of career public servants. It was still too early to tell how seriously the "chain" had weakened his grip on the government. But the week's events had made one thing clear: González could no longer pull himself through by crying "Red plot!" He would have to find some immediate way of easing the burden of inflation for the working classes. If he failed, González' government-and Chile's democracy-would be in danger...