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...spirit, it is always with some elaboration of the simple one syllable answer. Several phrases serve for "yes." One witness might reply with a string of "that is correct"s, sprinkling a few "that is right"s in as conservational spice. Mr. Wclch once raised himself above the Senatorial herd by making it "that is precisely right...
...assistant. The logical conclusion, however, is forestalled by a plague of cholera, during which the husband comes to understand himself and the wife to forgive him. In the end, the house and what it stands for-the embodied tyranny of the husband's father-are destroyed by a herd of elephants, whose way to water it has long debarred...
Neither major political party would like anything better in this election year than to present itself as the only true friend of the U.S. taxpayer. Republicans are painfully sensitive to charges that the G.O.P. is trying to "fatten the herd by feeding the bulls," i.e., strengthen the economy by tax relief to business rather than to the individual. Democrats, who during years of governmental responsibility suffered the onus of high taxes, are now beginning to enjoy themselves−and they have lined up behind an effort to lower taxes by increasing individual income-tax exemptions...
Number one man Haddon Tomes paced the varsity with a 15-10, 10-15, 15-11, 17-15 win over Vince Townsend, while number two Larry Brownell gained a 15-6, 15-10, 15-12 victory over Amherst's Don MacDougall. Bill Wister whipped Bob Herd 15-11, 15-5, 18-15; Johnny Rauh beat Ted Widemann 15-12, 15-12, 12-15, 15-7; and Ed Rose topped Herb Coursen...
...rringer began with a simple idea: "No 'bad' boy is really bad." He saw the delinquents as victims of Nazi education, of war-torn marriages, of complacency and defeat. The children, he said, had been "derailed" by World War II. His first move was to herd a gang of 40 delinquents off to a soup kitchen instead of jail. There each boy got a meal, a pair of shoes, some clothes the judge had scrounged. Then they talked, not about crime or war, but about sports, music, dancing and books. The boys began to relax. They came back...