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Last week both parties held separate congresses to ratify the reunion, and this week the single party, with the jaw-cracking label "P.S.I.-P.S.D.I. Unified," will meet in the Sports Palace outside Rome to draw up a constitution. Representing some 6,000,000 voters, the new party will start life with 95 Deputies and 46 Senators-still far behind the Christian Democrats (260 Deputies, 134 Senators) and the Communists (166 Deputies, 83 Senators). Nenni, who will take over as the new party president, feels the simple fact of socialist unity will help with policies that appeal more and more...
...bouncing John J. McGraw in the first game he worked, became the terror of such bench jockeys as Leo Durocher, Frankie Frisch, Mel Ott, and anyone else with the temerity to question his calls, at one time or another heaving pop bottles back at the stands, breaking the jaw of a catcher who attacked him, and thrashing a fan who did likewise; of pneumonia; in Rock Island...
...Whether her honor needed avenging was a question that was never satisfactorily answered. On that September night, as Thalia Massie was making her solitary way home afoot, she was attacked by five "Hawaiian boys," brutally beaten and-so she claimed-raped. Her body bore evidence of the beating (a jaw broken in two places), but none of sexual assault...
...Cute, yes--but tall. Very tall. I can tell from the jaw: when the skin hangs like that, it means tall...
...benches marked "Europeans Only." Inside the paneled assembly chamber, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd strode down the aisle, took his green leather seat on the front bench and, in a gesture that had become automatic, touched the fingers of his left hand to a small scar on his jaw, all that remained of the assassin's bullet that had nearly killed him in 1960. Verwoerd was in high spirits. He was about to make his first major speech of the session, and for the occasion he had had his hair...