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...Filth. Through the super-secret hocus-pocus common to all police states, an old friend put me in touch with a member of the Paraguayan underground, an attractive girl of about 28. "Lola" (that is not her name) is a member of the Movimiento Revoludonario Febrerista, a militant, left-wing organization corresponding to Peru's APRA...
...Michigan's hocus-pocus offense worked well enough to hurdle hardy Illinois, 14 to 7, thanks largely to nifty, shifty Halfback Bump Elliott, and a pass by Bob Chappuis (TIME, Nov. 3) that set up the game-winning touchdown...
...reinforced the limb on which he had long been impudently perching, Stabler gibed: "Get yourself a compass, a divining rod, walk backward through a dark alley at three minutes after midnight and everything will be made clear. The first of them who comes out honestly and admits that the hocus-pocus of the Dow theory made him miss nine weeks of the bull market will deserve a seat on the Stock Exchange, upholstered in bearskin...
Alcoholism and other forms of neurosis, currently so fashionable on the screen, are here presented without the usual hocus-pocus and yeast-endorser's jargon...
...Daily Express, Critic John Grime was indignant because (said Grime) Disney had announced that he was going to Eire to hunt leprechauns. "... A greater piece of hocus-pocus publicity was never foisted on a realistic world," wrote Grime. Disney had carefully explained that he was going to Eire to look for story ideas for his forthcoming The Little People...