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Ever since De Sapio bulldozed the State Convention into nominating Frank Hogan for the senatorial seat now held by Kenneth Keating, New York's liberals have been battling to loosen his grip on the party. At that time De Sapio's blatant display of political power raised the charge of "bossism" and undoubtedly helped sweep the Rockefeller-Keating ticket to victory...
...fish thoroughly inside and out with a cloth wrung out of cold water, removing any clotted blood which may be found adhering to the backbone. To skin fish: with sharp knife remove skin along the back and cut off a narrow strip of skin the entire length of back. Loosen skin on one side from bony part of gills ... if fish is soft, work slowly and carefully . . .' And so on through all the other gruesome procedures before the housewife could start to burn her fingers in the hot grease or fill her kitchen with clouds of fish-laden smoke...
...attack this afternoon. The speedy senior is Yale's leading scorer, and he can and will shoot from anywhere on the field. Right inside Johnny Pearce ranges all over the playing area in aggressive fashion, and his inside cohort John O'Keefe gives the Elis a flashy dribbler to loosen enemy defenses...
...Lunik III soared on, Soviet scientists waxed confident, began to loosen up about its objectives. Leningrad Physicist Lev Ponayeton said that data from the unseen side of the moon will help determine its shape and distribution of mass, which will be of tremendous help to manned space flights. Semi-official science reporters went farther, predicted that Lunik III would transmit actual photographs of the other side of the moon. Official scientists did not mention photographs, but it was significant that they launched their rocket at a time when most of the far side of the moon was in sunlight. Presumably...
...Back in his native Boston, Gart got a different view of finance in the tradition-laden world of M.I.T. He learned a lot about mutual funds, but little about the bonus : some hot tips on the stock market. Only at the very end did M.I.T.'s closemouthed men loosen up enough to venture that M.I.T. looks with favor on such true-blue chips as IBM and U.S. Steel...