Word: savely
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Maine. Democrat Edmund Muskie takes office this week, and the Republican secretary of state, proclaiming him governor, will utter the traditional cry: "God save the State of Maine!" Young (40) Ed Muskie might also feel the need to invoke divine aid in dealing with a legislature that has six Democrats to 27 Republicans in the Senate...
...lessons of his latest sled ride. He thinks that he experienced more wind and deceleration than a pilot bailing out at the speed of sound at 35,000 ft. altitude. This may be taken as proof, he believes, that an ejection seat (cost: $4,000) is enough to save such a pilot's life, and that an elaborate "ejection capsule" (cost: $30,000) is not needed. The pilot, he remarks, would have to be lashed down to the seat, or the wind would break his arms, legs and neck...
...making the B & M more efficient, McGinnis hopes to save the road from its serious financial troubles. Cherington called the earnings of the B & M during the last ten months "quite unsatisfactory" and said that "it takes a lot of nerve to pay $15 a share for common stock which will probably show a net loss in 1954. It would be an illogical expenditure to lose a million or two dollars...
Some of Perón's countrymen see a method in the President's motorcycle madness. His enthusiasm boosts demand for motorcycles (which the government manufactures) and eases the hunger for U.S. automobiles (which the government keeps out with import fences in order to save scarce dollars). But whatever such practical motives Perón may have, the main reason for his addiction to motorcycling appears to be simply that he gets a huge kick out of the sport...
...line tight as a noose. Straying from "Mex Town," Angel Chavez makes his first fumbling pass at a local girl on a restricted stretch of San Juno's beach one night, and she drops dead of a rheumatic heart. A brassy, card-carrying lawyer named Barney Castle helps save the boy from a lynch mob and takes him on as a client, but only for the Commie purpose of using Angel's case as party-line propaganda. While he rakes in folding money at a "Free Angel Rally," Barney turns over the boy's actual defense...