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...town (pop. 15,000) and airport on the river. The rebels kept pursuing planes from landing by strewing logs and oil drums on the strips; at length the government, more embarrassed than harassed, loaded 700 soldiers aboard a river boat at the Amazon delta and steamed to the at tack. Veloso and Lameirao thereupon took off from Santarem for parts unknown, apparently to hide for a time, then seek new adherents or safe exile...
When the union balked at that, federal mediators tried a new tack: they suggested that they and the fact-finding board, composed of two professional labor arbitrators, work with both sides to settle the dispute. After both sides accepted the mediators' peace-making proposal. Federal Mediator Joe Finnegan pointed skyward and sighed: "If this doesn't work, we will call on third-party assistance from upstairs...
...space being devoted to serious material. In 1892, however, Advocate editors became "alarmed at the prevalence of tragic stories," and changed their line again. Until '95, it was felt that "the watchword of a useful college paper should be life, not literature." The '95 board, however, took a new tack, its emphasis being on short stories...
...Airman Townsend, slim, wavy-haired fighter-pilot hero of the Battle of Britain, was the first to get to London. Looking fit and 41, he arrived with his Nile green Renault sedan on a Bristol cargo plane at Lydd airport, packed his gear and his gentleman-jockey's tack into the back seat, and drove straight to the Lowndes Square home of Marquess Abergavenny, a close friend of the royal family. That same evening the press learned that Princess Margaret was due in from Scotland next morning. A battery of reporters stood at Euston Station to note the Princess...
...there will be no change in the far-left tack of the magazine. The new editor is tweedy, bespectacled Carey McWilliams, editorial director for the last four years and a "liberal" who at times nudged close to the Communist Party line. As California commissioner of housing and immigration toward the last years of the Depression, McWilliams championed the collective farm, has been connected with half a dozen organizations since cited by the U.S. Attorney General as subversive, e.g., Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy. Last week, for a half-hearted apology, the Nation settled a libel suit against...