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That did it. The two-hour trial was over; Andrew God got off scot-free, and not even Bilko's Colonel Hall should have been surprised. "The whole thing may seem ridiculous to someone outside the Army," suggested a press officer superfluously last week, as he tried to explain...
The Pantagraph's strange ban has been in force so long that no one on the paper remembers when it began, or why. Some say it dates from the 1880s, when, for the first time, regular word of extra-Bloom-ington events came stuttering in over the newfangled press...
3) Army (8-0-1)-threw away its conservative offense of past years, opened up with a "lonesome end," unbalanced line and a multifarious passing attack, capped its best year since 1949 by surviving newfangled Navy trickery for a workmanlike 22-6 victory in the annual interservice grudge match.
-Reflecting afterwards on his recent interview, Lippmann concluded that Khrushchev had a newfangled definition of the status quo: the West should recognize all that Russia now has, plus all that it intends to get, in Asia and Africa, by what it considers the inexorable march of events.
Into the Clink. Though he could not act openly, he managed to work effectively through Buganda's tribal chiefs, who know that should democracy come, the traditional tribal hierarchy must go. The tribalists still dominate the Lukiko (Buganda's Parliament). On one pretext or another, Freddie's...