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...have called up the nun in charge, passed himself off as a representative of the cardinal's office, kept pumping her for details which he needed, he said, to plan supplies for the survivors. On hearing that Millionaire Fight Promoter Tex Rickard was seriously ill, Romanoff promptly rang up Mrs. Rickard. "This is Governor Len Small of Illinois," he intoned. "I am distressed to hear of the illness of my old friend Tex. Tell me, Mrs. Rickard, how is he?" "He's dying, Governor," the tearful spouse replied, and Romanoff had another scoop...
...Southern Christian Leadership Conference-boycotted the sessions. Their fears were confirmed. For the first time in CORE's history, the Black Muslims and other extreme Ne gro nationalists were not only permitted to share the platform but were favorably mentioned by the convention's leaders. The hall rang with chants of "Black power! Black power! Black power!" Said one shocked Roman Catholic nun, who was among the relatively few whites present: "This is the Congress for Racial Superiority...
...taken out to any one of more than a dozen trolley museums. He can see the long, spring-mounted pole that held the round grooved wheel ^That's the trolley") against the overhead electric wire. He can see where the motorman stood, his foot on the button that rang the bell ("One clang for stopping, two for starting"). He will also learn, if he listens, that by 1918 the bobbed-hair and spats set had their pick of some 100,000 trolleys and 45,000 miles of track to take them out to the ball game...
Outside four olive-drab sheds, which will ultimately house army latrines, 1,100 Vietnamese construction workers at Phan Rang last week excitedly queued up to cast what were, for almost all of them, their first ballots. When the free, secret election was over, they had chosen a ten-person "workers' council" to deal with their employer, the U.S. construction combine, which is led by Morrison-Knudsen of Boise, Idaho, and known as RMK-BRJ.* Far from fighting the unionization, the combine sponsored it as one way to ease around a barrier it had not bargained for: labor unrest...
...butter trade. The motel mix Matthews offers is free and easy parking, a swimming pool and a good room within walking distance of the town's No. 1 retail center. Obviously the formula works. With a healthy 75% occupancy rate last year (v. 64% for hotels) Downtowner Corp. rang up sales of $15,300,000, or 37% over...