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There were many Communists in Burma's jails, but Rangoon's police itched to get their fingers on one more. Hefty Thakin Soe had cost them face. Arrested, he slipped out of their grip and fled into Rangoon's famed Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Police right behind him had to stop and remove their boots before entering the Buddhist temple. For most of a day bootless police combed its labyrinth of passages and rest houses, guarded every exit. They paid little heed to a bent and evidently blind nun who slowly made her way down the main steps...
...bright new idealism: it will be very similar to the old. Meanwhile, many leaders of the former picketings and rallies and bull sessions clung to their raft of obsessions and quietly disappeared when war and contact with the raw, coarse stuff of a democratic country shook loose their inflexible grip...
...Mexico, the Communists kept a tight grip on the trade union movement through Vincente Lombardo Toledano, who, as head of the C.T.A.L. (see below), is a powerful figure throughout Latin...
...weeks of play in the inter-House Squash competition, the winner of which receives the Bernon S. Prentice Cup, have been completed, and play will be resumed next term. Adams has a firm grip on, the A' league top position with a 13 and 7 record, although it is in last place in B league where Eliot is out in front, having won 11 and lost 2 games...
When John L Lewis entered a barbershop and settled himself in Sidney C. Martin's chair, Martin concentrated on getting a grip on himself. "A shave and a facial massage," said Lewis. Barber Martin, who liked to tell people during the coal strike that if he ever got hold of Lewis he would take the famed eyebrows right off, got out his razor. Then a photographer entered, set off a flashbulb. Lewis bounded out of the chair with a growl, grabbed the photographer's film-holder, smashed it, drove him away, sat down again. Barber Martin gave...