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...Southtown and Southeast editions blanket 22% of metropolitan Chicago-including the Lake Calumet area, where Chicago is building a vast new industrial complex on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The ad-fat Economist (circ. 152,000), which has more, than 100 staffers, also has a battling tradition. Example: crying "land steal," it has vociferously fought grandiose plans for a convention palace on the lake front, as decreed long ago by the late Colonel Bertie McCormick and still pushed by the Tribune...
During the Band's half-time performance, a group of Dartmouth students charged onto the field in an attempt to steal the Band's giant drum...
...from her bedroom window." In a devoutly Catholic town ("If grandma would give me the money she spends on Masses, I'd be rich. I don't know if what I'm writing is a sin") Helena went through all the religious forms. Yet she could steal a brooch from her mother and convince herself that the idea "was given to me by Our Lady...
...McVey showed the potential that made him such a standout last season. The Black Knights simply could not steal the puck from him. The same was true with the more calculated playmaking of Higgenbottom, who added an important boost to the sextet's third line...
...Strain. Hoping to steal a march on the rest of the U.S. airline industry, Capital flew bravely into the jet-age dawn by buying 60 British Viscount turboprops three years ago, agreed to pay $67.5 million within five years of delivery plus interest to London bankers who financed the deal. As of 1956, Capital managed to pay $12.4 million of the debt, and badly strained itself in the process. Though revenues soared from $48 million in 1954 to $63.7 million last year, costs went up so fast that net income tumbled from $1.7 million in 1954 to a net deficit...