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...infiltrated the organization and clocked the Minutemen's every move for nearly a year. They reported that the would-be guerrillas had crashed the weekend maneuvers of reserve military units to gain experience and, possibly, arms. Planted officers participated in field maneuvers designed to perfect homemade bombs and hone the group's commando tactics. In one exercise, a Minuteman was observed firing cans of peas from a mortar at a pasture full of cows, while a forward lookout called back range corrections...
...argument that Ginzburg himself has finally turned to. Last week a U.S. appellate court stayed his sentence for two months to allow him to hone a new appeal claiming he was not personally responsible for trying to mail his products from such "titillating" addresses as Intercourse, Pa. As Ginzburg now tells it, the mailing company he hired devised that ploy without his knowledge...
Princeton, on the other hand, returned to action a week earlier. Last Saturday the Tigers knotted a 4-4 tie with Dartmouth, two weeks after edging the Green 5 to 4, at Hanover. A non-collegiate contest with the St. Nicholas Club last night should hone the Princeton blades to a fine edge for the Crimson...
Unknowns. Students hone their craft by conducting Scherchen, who sings the music in a croaking voice and veers off course at the slightest lapse in direction. But mostly they conduct in total silence under the concentrated stare of Scherchen's glinting blue eyes. "Isn't there a crescendo there?" he will interrupt. Says James Harrison, 29, of St. Louis, who is currently the only Scherchen student in residence: "The maestro has no place for mediocrity, and therefore he outlaws orchestras. One has to listen to music within one's mind, using the powerful force of imagination...
...lending and checking-account services that cannot be met by established banks, which state laws often bar from branching. Partly to skip around those archaic laws, U.S. Controller of the Currency James J. Saxon has been eagerly chartering new national banks. He hopes that they will introduce fresh methods, hone competition to the consumer's benefit, and revitalize a business that has been steadily losing ground to the savings and loan associations and the credit unions. Compared with the richer, older banks, many of the lean and aggressive newcomers stay open longer hours, charge less for loans and checking...