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There is also the danger of accidents. A three-year-old boy, hypnotized by the bell, is apt to make a headlong dash to get in his licks. In spite of the efforts of salesmen to teach caution, in California, Good Humor has been held culpable by the courts for numerous accidents that have cost the company from $10,000 to $100,000 in damages...
Though G.O.P. county committeemen gave Lindsay their formal endorsement by acclamation at a meeting in Brooklyn's faded Hotel St. George last week, his headlong flight from the party label irked many regulars. The reason for Lindsay's desire to dissociate himself from the Republican Party lay, of course, in New York City's registration figures: 2,378,000 Democrats to 698,000 Republicans. It is perfectly obvious that to win he will need the votes of many Democrats, disenchanted with Wagner and enchanted with him. But it would seem equally obvious that he should...
...cannot stand by while the decline and fall of New York continues headlong," said Manhattan's Republican Representative John V. Lindsay, and, so saying, announced his candidacy for mayor against Democrat Robert Wagner...
...repair a long period of damage" under the Tories. Labor's austerity program had resulted in higher interest rates on loans for housing and cars, and a rise in local taxes. In view of last week's defeat, many thought that Wilson almost certainly would avoid the headlong rush into a general election that many of his supporters were proposing, instead would choose a more propitious occasion in the fall...
...English scattered the rebel forces with great slaughter. King Robert's wife, daughter and sister were captured-in the spirit of fair prey, the English shut his sister up in a cage and hung her for several months on the walls of Roxburgh Castle. The King fled headlong to the Irish Sea, and for five fateful months was lost to history...