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Happiest Victory. All the polls had predicted a Wilson sweep. On election night, the very first returns indicated that they might be right. The next reports confirmed it. All across Britain, party workers at Labor clubhouses swilled beer and danced with joy as one red pin after another replaced blue ones on election maps, indicating that yet another Tory constituency had fallen to Wilson. At the final count, Labor won 363 seats v. the Tories' 253. The Liberals picked up two seats for a total of twelve. It was Labor's best showing -and the Tories' worst...
...Where do they pin those buttons at those parties...
There was a pin in the 190 match, with Dave Higgins of Wigglesworth beating Don Mier of Holworthy. The heavyweight match was won by Charles Poster of Hollis, 4-3 over Lionel Kaplan of Greenough...
...questionable call by the referee contributed to Chace's downfall. Trailing Lonergan 1-0 in the last period. Chace reversed the Yale wrestler and seemed to be a hair away from a pin. But Lonergan twisted back into a reversal of his own, and the referee refused to award Chace the three-point near-fall or two-point predicament that he seemed to deserve. A point's worth of riding time gave Lonergan the 4-2 decision...
...with the increasing popularity of jet air freight, along with the promise of truly gigantic cargo planes within a few years, U.S. shipping companies have finally, and belatedly, begun to battle back. The weapon on which they pin the most hope: a technique called container shipping. A seagoing adaptation of piggyback rail freight, container shipping involves packing cargo into steel, aluminum or wood containers of more or less standard size (8 ft. high, 8 ft. wide and 10, 20, 30 or 40 ft. long) at the factory, no matter how far inland. The containers are then moved by truck...