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Another workman said after the accident that the scaffolding had a tendency to sway. When one of the painters started to remove a screen from a third floor window, he lost his balance and grabbed a wooden guardrail which then broken...
Supper at II. In his first year as President, Kaunda, 39, the teetotaling son of a Presbyterian minister, has proved himself one of Africa's most responsible leaders. No stem-winding demagogue, he speaks quietly, seldom utters a harsh word, yet holds almost magical sway over his people. Last year he broke the back of an uprising by the fanatical Lumpa sect of High Priestess Alice Lenshina simply by broadcasting a nationwide appeal for calm...
...careless writer, and now that he is crassly cashing in, he is grossly sprawling out. He is inaccurate: "They were attracted like two magnets in a field of iron filings." He is prolix: "Frank kicked him, a hand cracking on flesh, and the purple, spark-fanged floor on the sway and loose burst at Keith like a piece of ice over the eye-face. Keith reacted, fist bursting, a whalehead driving across the light, packed with flintheads and darkness." He is even ungrammatical: "Walking along black midnight roads, the wound of his separation opened." It should have taken...
...Potential jurors are influenced "from the moment the trial judge announces that a case will be televised." Filming or taping may distract trial jurors; viewing the edited results may prejudice them. Seeing the original trial on film may sway potential jurors in a new trial, if there...
...year Tokyo tenure,. Joe Grew found himself in just that posi tion, and his efforts to sway the issue toward peace were, even though un successful, a model of diplomacy at its finest. When he died last week, two days before his 85th birthday, in Manchester, Mass., Grew still symbolized the very best of another era of American diplomacy - an era in which ambassadors in trouble posts operated un der broad directives, were not bound to the clacking embassy teletype and made considerable policy on their own initiative...