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...caked Ford van slid to a stop in front of a crumbling brick apartment house on Chicago's 18th Street. Eight young men darted out of the van and into the building, and were barely inside when cries of "?La migra! ?La migra!" echoed down the hallway. The warning that immigration agents might be near by sent the eight scurrying into an attic hideaway. After an edgy two hours, the men found out the cry had been a false alarm and they breathed a bit easier...
...rest of the country slid into the Depression, Marjorie prospered as the Post hostess with the mostest. Her estates became the playground for the surviving American moneyed, from the Phippses and Vanderbilts to the Kennedys and Dodges. Winters were spent at Mar-A-Lago, a 115-room, $7,000,000 residence in Palm Beach, Fla. Decorated with Italian stone, tiles made in 15th century Spain, and tapestries from the palace of the Venetian Doge, the crescent-shaped, turreted mansion and its estate boasted a nine-hole golf course, 10,000 potted plants, and well placed sand that enabled the family...
Yntema, for whom the regular season and the Eastern title meet were merely warmups for the untimate and true challenge, who set records nearly every time he pulled on his sleek and brief pinstirped trunks and slid into the pool, who maintained a composure and dedication befitting someone far in advance of his years, who never wavered from his supreme and awesome committment, in the culminating and most fulfilling act of his swimming endeavor, came home from the NCAA championships in Tennessee with a third place bronze medal in the 200 yd. butterfly. Yntema, who in nine short months amassed...
...South Front of the White House, he seemed forlorn, his shoulders sagging. None of his family were with him. He climbed into his long Lincoln limousine with his new chief of staff, General Alexander Haig. The eight-car motorcade, led by a car full of Secret Service agents, slid off into the cool, clear Washington night. Thirty-eight minutes later, again looking preoccupied and rather alone, Nixon checked into the third-floor presidential suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The President, said his personal physician, Dr. Walter R. Tkach, had come down with viral pneumonia (see MEDICINE...
According to the most recent public opinion poll, approval of Whitlam has slipped to 51%. More significantly, another poll indicated that support for the Labor Party had slid to 44% last month, down from the 50% it received in the December general election. If another election had coincided with that poll, the conservative Liberal-Country...