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...Pocketbook Clue. At the square, 30 beetling Russian tanks blocked their way. The Russians let a few women pass to put their flowers on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. But when others pressed forward, the Russian soldiers fired their Tommy guns. The women ran. One fell, shot...
...suddenly began to relax quietly into the soft, balmy mood of the Islands. Though they had marched out on 116 postwar strikes or work stoppages before Hall was found guilty, they have seldom misbehaved since. The new look comes partly from a flat look in the union's pocketbook after paying for Hall's defense and Bridges' frequent court appearances to fight deportation to Australia. But it springs also from the union's suspicion that there lies a limit beyond which even the I.L.W.U., for its own security, ought not to strain Hawaii's sugar...
...Maine's junior Senator. The tidings: hardworking, quietly effective Frederick Payne will not seek re-election in 1958. Among the reasons for the change in Payne: his health (he has a chronic but not disabling heart disorder), his family (Mrs. Payne doesn't like Washington), his pocketbook (he'd like to get back to private business). The Senator, an aide explained, announced his plans so early to give the party ''plenty of time to fill the seat with the right...
...cruel, sharp gusts. Day by day the muckrakers mocked J.D.R. Jr.'s 30? lunches, his marriage to Abby Aldrich (CROESUS CAPTURED), his regular talks to the men's Bible class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. "With his hereditary grip on a nation's pocketbook," sneered the Pittsburgh Press, "his talks on spiritual matters are a tax on piety." From the pulpit of St. Bartholomew's, the Episcopal Bishop of Michigan snorted: "The odor . . . smacks strongly of crude petroleum...
...little late in the game for anyone to sing the old complaint that the Yanks win because their fat pocketbook buys the best players. There they were in front, without a single 20-game pitcher. (Whitey Ford, their best man, has a record of 18-5, has never had a 20-game season.) What they boasted was an abundance of fine fielders, men who could hold their own at the plate, men who for the most part had come up through the Yankee farm system. And there was an inexhaustible bench full of reserves...