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When we heard the familiar crunch last Tuesday, we girded up our photographers and walked down to the corner rather bored. But this was no ordinary, run-of-the-month crash; the laws of chance, always just, had finally entoiled a police car in the policeman's trap. There it was, hanging from a tow truck, with the price of half a dozen stop signs stamped on its fender and grille. Otherwise the scene was the same as all the others...
After some indecisive early skirmishing, a poor kick gave the Elis the ball on their own 44. Fullback Jerry Jones smashed to the Harvard 37 on a fake-pass trap play. On the next play, Jones ran through a large hole off-tackle for the score...
Unless Ike followed Roosevelt's example, argued some Republicans, he might be trapped into implied approval of Democratic policies. During the campaign Truman had given Ike quite a lesson in the technique of shifting responsibility, by trying to make it appear that Ike was to blame for the Korean war. To allay fears that Truman would spring another trap, Ike's press secretary issued a statement emphasizing that Eisenhower would possess "no authority of any kind" until his inauguration, and that the chief function of his representatives would be to obtain information...
...Kukes and told them to speak to me freely. The farmer is a good bwana, they said, but that isn't the point. The land was always ours; now we are hired laborers who can never earn enough to buy a farm. We are caught in a trap...
...worst trap of all is the crowded Kikuyu reserve, north of Nairobi. Scores of thousands of Kukes live there; and in the fertile areas, population density reaches 600 per sq. mi. Every scrap of arable land is terraced to the hilltops, yet only one Kuke family in ten has enough land to feed itself. The white holdings vary from a few acres (for poultry) to several square miles (for cattle ranching...