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...world's fattest trade union, facing a major crisis, last week showed no more solidarity than a flock of peacocks in a thunderstorm. India's Chamber of Princes (an undisciplined brotherhood of rajas, maharajas and nawabs, with a stray Gaekwar and Holkar) held its annual conference in Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel. The princes looked out over the bay and pondered a prospect that many a union man has faced before-technological unemployment...
...elections are drawing near, stray clashes have occurred, and the position of each to the other may be seen from the following table...
Said another: the city of Cleveland disposes of 28,000 stray dogs a year, but the Animal Protective League will not permit their use in laboratories. A California delegate complained that in his state unwanted dogs are made into fertilizer: "But ... we don't dare show visitors through our laboratories for fear they'll hear a dog bark...
...During Churchill's visit in the summer of 1943, all the men not on duty were placed at strategic spots along the line of march, while plainclothesmen infiltrated throughout the Yard. Police strength was increased two-thirds during the last Yale game, but here attention was directed more to stray pocketbooks than missing goalposts. The Force considers gridiron shenanigans with little concern but any attempt at dynamiting Soldiers Field is regarded as carrying seasonal jocularity...
Totaling up their liquid assets late last night, directors of the CRIMSON'S spring competition unearthed a few stray bottles of eight year old lager beer and announced that opportunities for late-comers to try their hand at the newspaper game were still open...