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Warning Bells. For 1,000 francs ($3) a year dues, Poujade offered cash benefits in the form of taxes unpaid, coupled with a mutual insurance system to prevent reprisals because of mob action against inspectors. "I talked until my throat was so sore that I was spitting blood," says Poujade. In its first year, Poujade's Union for the Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans (UDCA) organized 500 ''oppositions" to tax collectors, recruited priests to ring church bells as warnings of inspectors approaching. When delinquent taxpayers were seized, Poujade packed the auctions to buy back their belongings...
Without a brilliant performance by goalie Charlie Flynn, who turned in 42 saves, Princeton might have clinched the game in its scrappy second period. The Crimson's usual sore spot, its blue line unit, again could not ward off opposing attacks and usually only Flynn's cautious play was able to keep the varsity within reach of the tiger's brief lead...
Orrik has won ten straight 100-yard events for the Lions, with times of around 53 seconds, and covers the 50 in 24. The Crimson, moreover, will be without the services of its record-holding sprinter, Chouteau Dyer, who has a sore throat...
...prime example was aluminum. Though hard aluminum alloys are still barred, soft aluminum is not, and increasing amounts have been shipped to Communist nations. Soft aluminum can be easily reprocessed into aircraft-strength alloys. Another sore point was copper. Great Britain alone shipped more than 100,000 tons of copper to the Soviet bloc, almost 30% of Russia's annual production, and it was sold at a time when the U.S. itself was short of copper. Furthermore, most of it came from mines in Rhodesia that had been developed with U.S. loans. In addition, a whole group of strategic...
...seven years ago, and many highly placed observers think that just such a skilled and universally trusted international hand is needed there now. Climbing first out of his white U.N. plane at Cairo, Hammarskjold sewed up Egyptian consent to his plan for healing Egypt's worst Israeli border sore spot, the demilitarized desert crossroads at El Auja, where blood flowed freely last November. Each side agreed to pull back its forces and let the U.N. go ahead and fix the demarcation lines...