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...Afterwards everyone stands around limply wondering how Turpin managed to stand up under the beating. "Him and Lamotta has de hahdest two haids in de world," a fan says, shaking his head. The standee is $270 poorer. His enthusiasm is gone. "Guess I hafta walk home," he mutters to no one in particular and starts down the long flight of stairs. The entertainment is over...
...turns-as Egyptian politicians always have-to twisting the lion's tail. Privately, Nahas Pasha, like King Farouk and the rest of Egypt's upper crust, probably dreads nothing so much as the withdrawal of Britain's defensive screen. Without it, Egypt would be in poorer shape to resist the Russians, its own restless mob, and the Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that the Egyptians cannot get along without them. But the peril is that, as in Iran, a government unable to deliver on its domestic promises...
Under the Bully Choops. The Klamath does not look like much on a map, but its annual flow is 10 million acre-feet, about equal to one of the poorer years of the Colorado. According to one plan, an 813-ft. dam at Ah Pah, near the mouth of the Klamath, will back it far up its southern tributary, the Trinity. A tunnel 60 miles long under the Bully Choop Mountains will export 6,000,000 acre-feet into the Sacramento. After getting a boost from a battery of pumps, the water will follow a canal to Bakersfield. Then another...
John Hancock was one of the College's poorer treasurers. "He refused to make accountings or to heed pointed suggestions that he resign," writes Cabot "Finally, when he was away from Boston as President of the Continental Congress one of the Harvard tutors was sent to him by the Corporation to receive the papers and securities in his hands, and succeeded in getting from him 18,000 pounds sterling of the College securities...
Using recent graduates of the College, cutting down the size of the board of advisers, and keeping closer check on the work of each adviser are recommended to produce better advisers. All this would tend to eliminate the poorer men who, according to he report, which is based on interviews and a recent poll, cause most of the dissatisfaction...