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...Haupt was on the hook to the exchanges. The firm desperately undertook to cover Tino's contracts, for which it was responsible. In all, it borrowed some $30 million from U.S. and British banks. But when the soybean market failed to rise, Haupt went under...
When asked for a description of the punch that ended the fight, Clay at first replied, "a left hook and a right cross," but a few seconds later changed this to, I'll have to see the video tape...
...morning session of the tech-in, which was broadcast to more than 100 campuses through special radio and television hook-ups, included a speech by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 'II, former professor of History at Harvard and White House aide. Though Schlesinger's speech was definitely in favor of administration policy, he voiced opposition to some of the military tactics used in Vietnam...
...blurred intelligence estimates, but the President undoubtedly got the U.S. more deeply involved in the Dominican fighting than he had originally intended. Now, under his leadership, the nation's diplomatic efforts were bent-successfully-on winning a reluctant but historic decision to take the U.S. off the hook by sending a hemispheric peace-keeping force into the Dominican Republic (see THE HEMISPHERE). And in Viet Nam, despite a continuing chorus of criticism, particularly on U.S. college campuses,' the President kept increasing the pressure. In the largest amphibious landing operation since the Korean War, 3,000 marines...
...What kind of man is this Rowe that comes into a fraternal organization by hook or crook?" cried Murphy. "He cares not what he swears to, and let me say this, gentlemen: he took an oath when he joined the United Klans of America. Remember Judas Iscariot! [Rowe] took this oath with his hand raised to Almighty God in joining the United Klans of America...