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...cities and sleepy provinces, where the Tour is remembered all year, schools and businesses close to cheer it through. A brassy blend of road show and county fair, the juggernaut blocks traffic for two hours as it passes. Founded by a promotion-minded sporting sheet with the inappropriate name of L'Auto, the Tour is financed by advertisers, who pay up to $4,000 for the privilege of following the racers with sound trucks that blare praise for products from apéritifs to aspirin. (The Tour's current sponsors are two French papers...
...Belgrade). Her daughter married the son of Secretary of the Communist Party Frol Kozlov. Until Khrushchev started taking Wife Nina along on his trips, Katya functioned as Communism's unofficial First Lady, accompanying Khrushchev to Peking, Prague and Vienna. In those days, Katya was a bit of a juggernaut-shoulders padded, hair pulled back severely in a bun, not a trace of makeup. But Katya had professional as well as social talents in Khrushchev's eyes-she rallied the Moscow party machinery firmly behind him in his 1956 purge of old-line Stalinists who had tried to overthrow...
Undeniably a juggernaut, the Tiger eleven should roll over Dartmouth today, thus putting all the pressure on Yale...
Legislators pointed out that the Governor's appointees need not even be educators. Said one house member: "You are setting into motion the greatest juggernaut of thought control ever devised by man." But the majority ruled. By a vote of 82 to 44, the house sent on the bill for Barnett's signature...
...they have each year in the thousands of years since the time of legendary King Indradyumna, the three gods made their triumphal procession from their temple at Puri to their summer house, a mile away down a broad avenue. It was an awesome sight. For Jagannath is the famous Juggernaut, riding the vast cart beneath whose creaking wheels fanatic worshipers once threw themselves to be crushed to death...