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...from nearby fields. On television screens the spectators saw what the planes saw: they flew by proxy to Baltimore, watching a brush fire on the way. They made a sight-seeing tour of Washington, spying on the traffic in the streets. At one point, eleven Navy fighters made a mock attack. If a battle had been in progress, the spectators could have eyewitnessed it from their comfortable chairs...
...Ames Competition, Harvard Law School's traditional series of moot court trials, has been restored to the school's program as a postwar measure, officials announced yesterday. Currently engaged in the mock court work are the first and second year classes...
Portugal, which has not had a real election for 20 years, held another mock ballot this week. Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's ticket won a unanimous victory. The opposition, protesting that registration lists were rigged, abstained from voting...
...Baptist Church he listened attentively to the sermon, dropped a $1 bill into the collection plate. Lunch (by the Presbyterian ladies) was Missouri ham. The schedule called for a nap after lunch. But a bunch of "40-and-8" Legionnaires were whooping it up on the street around a mock locomotive, and calling for Harry Truman. He mounted the contraption, posed for many pictures. Then someone yelled: "Ring the bell." Harry Truman yanked the rope, clanged the bell hard and long. The crowd was delighted. So was the President...
...gags that fans like. Two samples: he doffs his cap and, with a great show of respect, uses it to dust off third base to welcome any Cub who hits a home run; if a pitcher hits a homer, he topples over backwards in a mock dead faint. The more Grimm mugs, the better his Cubs seem to play...