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...Brought Back Balance." That the G.O.P. can count on any labor support at all suggests that the pendulum of Michigan politics may be swinging back. Soapy Williams took over in 1948 with an outpouring of labor strength that shook the teeth of the Republicans, who had been confidently in control of the state government for most of the century. Carefully the Democrats hammered out their own machine-a three-wheeled speedster that rolled on the vote-delivering power of union leaders, the organizational wizardry of Democratic Chairman Neil Staebler, and the popularity of ebullient bow-tied Soapy Williams, who could...
Finally, Savini ignited the Columbia drive with a snaky 37-yard punt return that took the ball to the Harvard . Savini shook about half the Crimson by just standing still when he thought the ball and letting them speed by either side...
...speaker's stand. He had been made up at home by an expert, and an accompanying lighting expert pronounced NBC's lights perfectly all right. A few minutes before they went on the air, Kennedy strolled over to the Vice President, and both spoke inaudibly as they shook hands. Moments later, TV monitors in the studio pressroom came alive and focused on Nixon. He was sitting grimly, staring straight ahead, as if to substantiate preshow betting that Nixon had decided to take the gloves off and hit hard...
...vaudeville later gave Red his secondary education and set him up for radio, Hollywood and television, but Dr. Lewis, inadvertently, had already shown him his best professional asset. The "doctor" pushed Red off the medicine wagon one day, and when the boy nose-dived to the ground, the crowd shook with laughter. Skelton has fallen like rain ever since, spattering himself all over sets and stages. He has banged up arms, fingers, ribs, and suffered one serious concussion...
...Avengers were able to make selective runs on the slowly moving, almost helpless ship." As Ensign Yoshida recalls, "Men were jumbled together in disorder on the deck. Admiral Ito struggled to his feet. His chief of staff then rose and saluted. A prolonged silence followed. Ito looked around, shook hands deliberately with his staff officers, and then went resolutely to his cabin. The deck was nearly vertical. Shells of the big guns skidded, crashing against the bulkhead and kindling the first of a series of explosions." At 1423 this queen of the battlewagons "slid under completely...