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...citizens of Washington, D.C., however, it is a mystic sign of spring. For generations, every Easter Monday, young Washingtonians have been aroused at cockcrow and subjected to the city's egg rolls. On that day thousands of citizens flock to the Lion House hill at the Zoo to hurl Easter eggs around, lounge in the sun, litter the grass, trample on other citizens, and harass the police and the National Parks maintenance men. Hundreds more attend egg rollings at churches, schools and private homes. But the biggest numbers always converge on the White House. Last week, as usual...
...been and still is a matter of opinion," writes British Author Charles Duff, "whether, if you wish to kill your undesirable, it is better to...flay him until he dies, or hurl him over a precipice; or burn him or drown or suffocate him; or entomb him alive...or asphyxiate him in a lethal chamber, or press him to death or cut off his head; or produce a sort of coma by means of an electric current... For my own part...I have reached the conclusion - that no people can point to a method which is more beautiful and expeditious...
...launched a savage attack designed to bring him down. There was now no alternative to a revived and uncontrolled Wehrmacht, they charged. Cried ex-Premier Reynaud: "You have killed a French idea which restored French prestige . . . You often appeal to young France, but what do you offer her? You hurl her back into the blood of the past...
Died. Sir Herbert Williams, 69, onetime (1928-29) Parliamentary Secretary, ultraconservative M.P. whose best-known act of statesmanship in the past 25 years was to hurl a shelled egg across the House during a 1953 debate on food prices; of a stroke; in London...
Andy Ward, who was slated to hurl against the Judges, will probably be on the mound today. Exactly a week ago he pitched the first four innings of a 9 to 2 win over M.I.T...