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...last-ditch attempt to defeat Gary's Mayoral Candidate Richard Hatcher, the local Democratic machine set out to steal the vote in vintage Tammany Hall style. And the machine under Boss John Krupa, Hatcher's archfoe, was just the outfit to do it. As secretary of the board of election commissioners and the board of canvassers, Krupa dropped from the registration lists the names of 5,286 voters, mostly Negroes. At the same time, hundreds of fictitious registrations were added so that paid impostors could cast ballots against Hatcher. Since his winning margin last week was only...
...standard tour of duty in one of the DMZ camps is 30 days, a brevity that helps make possible the grim humor with which the Marines accept their defensive watch. Atop Major Froncek's bunker stands a six-foot-high handmade catapult, which he smilingly explains is "a last-ditch weapon in case we are overrun." Not far away stands a siren that is no joke. Should the base ever be overrun, it will scream a signal to everyone to burrow deep down inside their bunkers. Then all the other U.S. artillery bases within range will wheel their guns...
...John F. Finerty, 82, acerbic trial lawyer who defended many unpopular causes, in the 1920s fought for the release of funds donated by Americans to aid Eamon de Valera's struggle for Irish independence, in 1927 argued the last writ of habeas corpus for Sacco and Vanzetti the night of their execution, and in 1953 joined in a last-ditch attempt to save convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg from the electric chair; of bronchial pneumonia; in Oceanside...
...humiliated," as he tells it, by the superintendent. He forgot to sign in a female guest one night and the incident was very embarrassing, Palazzo says. He thinks he might have lost the girl because of it. But the incident also started something very big--a fanatic-paced last-ditch drive for the liberalization (or perhaps eradication) of Harvard's parieal rules...
Opponents of the Brookline-Elm route of the Inner Belt have begun a last-ditch campaign to get the Federal Bureau of Public Roads to override the state's choice of the route...