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...Refused to overturn an Appeals Court decision that Houston must let Negroes use municipal golf courses...
...When a cooking pot begins to stink, it's time to put the lid on." That was the advice the influential Tokyo Shimbun recently flung at Premier Shigeru Yoshida, 75. A government corruption scandal of Teapot Dome proportions threatened to overturn Yoshida's conservative coalition government. Everyone wondered whether shrewd, durable Premier Yoshida would be able to meet this challenge...
This week the Russians tried to kidnap Evdokia, and almost succeeded. They hustled her into a black Cadillac, sped 190 miles at top speed to Sydney. At the airport, an angry crowd mobbed the Cadillac, tried to overturn the car. The Russian guards dragged Evdokia through the gates while the mob, now 3,000 strong, chanted "Don't let her go." Trying to smile for photographers, Evdokia wept instead, covered her face with both hands. Scores jumped the fence onto the field, broke past police lines to tug at Evdokia and strike at her guards. Witnesses said they heard...
...this peaceful overturn was a newcomer to politics. He was adopted by the liberal wing of the Republican Party which believed that the tangible gains of the New Deal could be preserved while rejecting certain fundamentals of the New Deal's philosophy. Ike thought at first he would be "drafted" by the Republicans, but he quickly found that the processes of democracy include hard and necessary tests. He passed those in the dramatic weeks when the magic number was 604-the majority of Republican Convention delegates...
Woman's Intuition. In Somersworth, N.H., Mrs. Boardman Wright Jr. dozed off during a motor trip, dreamed that she was involved in a crash, escaped injury after she awoke with a start, grabbed the wheel from her husband, causing their car to overturn...