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...primed by pep talks from anti-Yankee professors, they were out for trouble. Armed with sticks, stones and one red flag, they headed for Panama City's Plaza Santa Ana to organize a "popular protest," and hoped to get the National Assembly to hold up the agreement. Halfway down the Avenida Central, police met them with tear gas and sabers. For a moment the students gave as good as they got. Then they fell back. Score: 30 hurt (including 17 policemen...
...National Individual Match Game Championship. Unlike the mammoth A.B.C. tourney (in which 18,000 entrants compete), this was for the nation's 168 best bowlers. Only the strongest survived the 100-game grind. Halfway through, thumbs and middle fingers began to swell. In the "bowlers' paddock" in the armory's basement, liniment was rubbed-on sore left legs and left hips. When the 16 finalists dug in for the final 32 games, Wilman pushed into the lead by a fraction of a point. The crowd roared when the pins went down. A local...
When the mile-relay groups hit the boards, Harvard again trailed, this time with Rhode Island State providing the front-runners. This test resulted in a closer race, with the Rams breaking into the lead at about the halfway mark...
...seene halfway through "Room Service" finds a doctor bound and gagged in the bathroom, Harpo Marx chasing a turkey around the hotel room, and Groucho and Chicho browbeating a timid lawyer into signing a $15,000 check. In a matter of minutes Harpo accompanies the other two on the harmonica as they sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" over the body of a possum-playing playwright. All this and love interest too is entrenched at Boston's citadel of slapstick, the Laffmovie...
...knows," he said, and waved at a woman in black sitting on the far side of the courtyard, where she commanded a view of every entry. A girl halfway across the court said the same thing. I asked if she were the concierge and the girl answered: "That is what the secret police call her." When I got to the beady-eyed woman herself, she gave me the number...