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...path of true love was rougher than a Bucharest trolley track. The groom had lost his country, his throne and his fortune to the Communists. The bride was losing the blessing of her church for marrying outside its dispensation, and the bride's parents stayed away. But in Athens last week,wearing borrowed Greek crowns, Orthodox Michael of Rumania and Catholic Anne of Bourbon-Parma were at long length married...
...below zero. I am whimpering by my fireplace . . . expecting any moment to hear the roar of the crowd as they march up my street to lynch me. ... I couldn't find anything inaccurate in the story, except it gave the impression Wisconsin was the rougher of the teams, which it wasn't, and didn't say that Iowa had 32 fouls and Wisconsin only 15. . . . Please don't give me another athletic assignment for some time to come...
...especially tailored to fit the capabilities of a bruising fullback named Yarborough, formerly of the University of North Carolina, Halfback Arnold is expected to toss most of the passes for the Navy team. Although the Jayvees were undefeated last year, Coach Boston expects that the going will be rougher this season...
Last week things got rougher. When Government price control officials caved in to the pressure of soaring prices of imported grain and took ceilings off flour, bread prices promptly tripled. Mexico City bakery workers walked out. Bands of 20 to 25 men roamed the streets, smashed bakery windows, dumped bread, painted hambreador on store fronts; 250 of the city's 850 small bakeries were damaged...
Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, the President's physician, was next, followed by others on the Presidential staff. The initiations, getting rougher all the time, continued for four hours. When they were over, 16 men and officers required medical attention...