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General Summerall, his soldier's pride hurt to the quick, was adamant to all civilian pleas. Not until the Citadel cadet corps, as soldier to soldier, appealed to him did he relent and withdraw his resignation...
Days and nights passed. The striking weavers starved in their warehouse, the Amalgamated Printer sat on his chimney. Chimney Sitter Tanabe's 129 hour record was passed. Still the hardhearted owners of Japan Dyeing & Weaving Works did not relent. The strikers had forgotten that the real reason Chimney Sitter Tanabe won his case in November was that the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, was scheduled to pass beneath that particular chimney. It is illegal, it is sacrilege for any Japanese to look down on the Son of Heaven...
...does not relish such strange things and Attorney General Mitchell, a well-informed member of the Minnesota bar, took strong exception to Senator Schall's proposal. Not even when Senator Schall obtained for Lawyer Michel the endorsement of all the Minnesota Republicans in Congress, did Attorney General Mitchell relent. Senator Schall declared he would have no other man. So last week the Attorney General, backed by his President, let the case go before the public on its merits...
...Spring is the season for fertility, for recreation. The groups seperate, quarrel, play self-consciously for the first time. A sage appears, the eldest the clan. Face down he asks the bless of the earth and new energy comes seizes the adolescents, sets them to a surging crescendo of relent tom-tom rhythms...
...evenings later she seems to relent. She has Jencic take her to the Arcade. But this is only to excite jealousy in Louie, her latest. Dark and dapper, Louie steps up to Jencic, who just stands there like a block of wood, patient and talkative. Louie punches him on the jaw. Sitting on the sidewalk, hulking Jencic looks up with sick eyes, whispering...