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...five months Frank Duncan spent evenings with Olga, nights at home. Sometimes mother Duncan, 54, would harass Olga by telephone at the hospital; sometimes she would beat on the apartment door and scream threats. Twice Olga changed apartments to escape her mother-in-law; each time Mother Duncan trailed Frank to his rendezvous. And one day last August mother Duncan hired an ex-convict to act as her son, posed herself as Olga, got a Ventura County superior court judge to annul her son's marriage...
...Costa Rica, which, taken together, form the world's fastest-growing merchant fleet (717 in 1951, 1,695 today). The boycott, sponsored by the International Transport Workers' Federation, which claims 200 affiliates in 62 nations with 7,000,000 members, was the start of a campaign to harass owners of "convenience" or "runaway" flag vessels, so called because the PanLibHonCo nations levy negligible taxes, have lower labor and safety standards than the U.S. and other leading maritime nations. An estimated 45% of all the convenience-flag vessels are controlled by U.S. citizens, 45% by Greeks, 10% by other...
...Curley found himself elected Governor. The four years that followed were as riotous as any in State House history. He controlled patronage on a grander scale than ever, and had unlimited opportunities to harass his friends from Harvard. To replace the noted Commissioner of Education, Payson Smith, Curley appointed a woolly-minded old crony who had once taught in a country school. The man promptly enraged even Ward 17 by changing his name from Reardon to the more distinguished Reardan...
Louisiana Democrats last week fired the first salvo in the internecine war that will harass Democrats in general and National Chairman Paul M. Butler in particular right through the 1960 presidential election. In Baton Rouge the state committee, in a raucous, televised session, fired their national committeeman, Camille F. Gravel, Jr., 43. Grounds: Lawyer Gravel loyally supported the national party's civil rights platform...
...shrapnel had blown the head off 40-year-old Li Wen-pi as he tried to lead his horse to safety. Even in the late afternoon, when no shells were falling, Kuning-tou's deep, dank underground shelter was crowded. The Communists are calculating their artillery fire to harass Quemoy's nerves-there is always fire at mealtimes and just after bedtime. Any crossroads is an unhealthy place to pause...