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...King, though relatively powerless, has great prestige with the people. With the support of key military officers, he used the revolt as a lever to pry the unpopular Thanom from office. The students clearly had won a stunning victory. Cheering and pounding on the sides of commandeered buses, they sped through Bangkok waving Thai flags and holding up portraits of the King...
...William Luce, former British governor of Aden, said yesterday at a lecture in the Undergraduate Science Center that vast oil resources will enable Arab leaders to use future U.S. dependence on Arab oil as a lever to chance U.S.Mid-East policy...
...didn't get to see Harvard play football. Because there were scouts in the stands and besides the films would be going to the opponent next week anyway. It was hopeless. I looked down at my camera. I looked at my fingers wrapped around the film advance lever on my camera. I realized that I couldn't feel the tips of my fingers very well. All to see Harvard play football. And I hadn...
...nose of each car lined up for the race rests flush against a hinged metal plate that drops forward into the asphalt at the start, allowing the vehicle to roll forward down the inclined raceway. As he settled back into his racer, Gronen's helmet touched off a lever that activated the battery and magnet, and as the metal plate fell forward the magnet's pull toward it gave his vehicle enough extra starting impetus to win. If that weren't enough, it turns out that Gronen's cousin, Robert Lange Jr., won the Derby last...
...been a good Comptroller, even if at times unable to resist petty attacks on Lindsay, whom he has never forgiven for his defeat in 1965. Beame is not regarded as terribly imaginative, but his integrity is unquestioned. Jewish voters who might normally vote for Blumenthal can pull the lever for Beame without a trace of guilt, as Beame occupies the solid center of the political spectrum. With only five weeks left before the primary, Biaggi will have to recover very fast from this body blow if he is to have any chance of catching Beame...