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After that, her mother and father came to the Common every Sunday afternoon to plead with their daughter to return. They stood in the middle of a large crowd, mostly hostile, while Father Feeney called them names, and their daughter publicly denounced them and called on the crowd to get rid of them. The mother wept and the father pleaded...
During the Boston incident, a hotel flunky, a priest, various policemen and a pretty girl from the crowd had taken turns in a desperate attempt to dissuade the would-be suicide from jumping. Last week in Louisville, a duplicate cast arrived, as if by magic, to plead with the ledge-walker on the Kentucky Hotel. A hotel clerk named Melvin Tobias leaned out a 19th-floor window, began trying to talk the youth down. A police lieutenant named R. C. Walling quickly arrived on the scene. The clerk and the cop were soon joined by a priest, Father William...
...Anglo-American disunity on policy in that area. The disunity, in turn, is a result of careless and unskillful politics, not of any irreconcilable differences of U.S. and British policy in the Near and Middle East. When Acheson and other U.S. leaders sit down with Mossadegh, they can plead, as they did last week, for patience and good will on the specific question of Iranian oil. But they do not speak out of any broad, concerted Western policy that visualizes clearly the British and American roles in the future of the Moslem world. In forming future policy...
...anniversary of India's freedom, Indians massed along ramparts of Red Fort in Delhi to hear Prime Minister Nehru plead for calm in that nation's tense crisis with: 1.China...
...research buildings of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Two years earlier, in the Eastern sector, the Soviets had reopened the old University of Berlin. But they did little more than repeat the Nazi patterns of corruption. A disgusted group of students and professors went to Generals Clay and Howley to plead for a decent school. From the A.M.G. and the West Berlin government of Mayor Ernst Reuter they got money and equipment for a shoestring start...