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Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. who was pinked three times by an assassin in 1948, got a token of esteem from the Skoda steel works: a bulletproof Skoda limousine. Such a gift, said the beaming Togliatti, "*is proof of the industrial ability and excellent workmanship of Czechoslovakia, working...freely to put out cars for the common man at a time when capitalist industry is concentrating on brutal rearmament...
Pennsylvania found itself an athletic leper, and a pretty lonesome one. The college continued a token struggle for a few more weeks, but the outcome was obvious. The Quakers decided last Thursday to capitulate to the N.C.A.A. in preference to joining the National Professional Football League...
Farmer Cochel, who deeded his farm to the church in 1947, manages to make it show a token profit (last year, $2,500). His deed provides that he will manage Roanridge as long as he wants to. "Every other time any church tried to run a farm, it blew up on them because they didn't know how to do it," he says. "I didn't want any bishops telling me how to farm...
Next day the Houston Elks presented MacArthur with a modest token of Texas hospitality-a Cadillac. But for all of Glenn McCarthy's planning (which included closing Houston businesses up at 4 o'clock, instituting special bus service, firing off another 17-gun salute and commissioning a special song entitled I Shall Return), the general's speech at Rice Institute Stadium drew only 20,000 to a bowl that seats...
Menacing background noises suggested that the Iranians were in no mood to wait. They ran up the Iranian flag over the oilfield installations in token seizure, threatened to take them over in fact and throw the British out. Iranian politicians continued to make fiery statements blaming all of Iran's poverty on the British. The company's general manager made plans for the evacuation of British nationals from the Abadan area...