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...varsity mile relay team will face its stiffest competition of the season tonight when Captain Bob Rittenberg, Dick Wharton, Renny Little, and Dave Alpers will meet the nation's best quarter-milers in the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden...
...undefeated Yardlings face their stiffest test to date with the Boston College freshmen at 4:30 this afternoon on the Watson rink, and play Belmont Hill at the same time tomorrow in the Lynn Arens...
Only seven months ago Italy's Communists, starchy with the stiffest kind of bourgeois morality, piously raised their voices in horror at the revelations of "bourgeois decadence" in the Wilma Montesi case. In the hullaballoo over drugs and sex among high-placed Romans, both Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni and the national police chief quit their posts, and there was much talk of cover-up and hush-up. But the talk was not followed by proof.* Meanwhile, Magazine Publisher Edgardo Sogno began finding political and personal scandals about the Communists themselves (TIME, Nov. 1). And last week the Communists were...
...wife. But he still boasted of the Reds' "high regard for me." He deserved their esteem. According to witnesses, he played the Communist game, informed on one American fellow prisoner and recommended that another be shot. Last week in San Antonio, an Army court-martial gave Batchelor the stiffest sentence yet imposed on any American collaborationist: life imprisonment. In Tokyo his wife, still writing letters, said she would "wait . . . no matter how long...
...Nunan, onetime Commissioner of Internal Revenue for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman (1944-47), listened in silence as Federal Judge Walter Bruchhausen sentenced him to five years in the penitentiary and fined him $15,000 for evading $91,086 in income taxes. In passing sentence-one of the stiffest ever handed down for tax evasion-Judge Bruchhausen took official cognizance of Joe Nunan's old position as top tax collector of the land. "The court does not overlook the fact that the defendant's duties . . . afforded him unusual opportunities for acquaintance with the tax laws and regulations...