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...school board post. To get revenge, Estes set up a rival paper. Upshot: the Independent investigated and printed the first exposure of Billie Sol's tank-mortgage fraud. The alarmed finance companies sent in swarms of investigators, and Billie Sol's empire came crashing down with a thud that reverberated all the way to Washington. On March 29, the FBI arrested Estes on charges of transporting the bogus mortgages across state lines. Estes is now out on bail, but is under both a federal indictment for fraud and a state indictment for theft...
...hope the upshot of this discussion will be an effort to make this kind of assistance available as well as to officially recognize that the rules do not and cannot supervise student conduct. Emily R. Otis...
...statistically indeterminable number of girls to bed, generally with fears and trepidations rationalized by "he insists and I love him." Most girls' mothers suspect this situation and stay calm. "It is fathers," says Psychiatrist Carl Binger, "who need to be protected against the facts of life." If the upshot is a marriage while a girl is still in school, she often counts her education a success. "I NEVER, NEVER expected to leave without being married," writes a still unmarried Wellesley girl. Girls who get to be seniors without a man sometimes panic and hastily turn themselves into teachers...
...argue (with justice) that his activities were totally innocuous. He went on to claim that he had actually been "a calming influence" in Berlin. While his cameras were working, he pointed out, buses went through the barricades without being stopped by the Volkspolizei, weapons disappeared, and so forth. Upshot: "I think I'll leave for the Congo very soon...
...Venus in Boston, there was such an outcry that the painting was whisked from public view. At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where on Ladies' Day the Greek statues were draped, the great Thomas Eakins posed a male and female model together and as an upshot of the incident had to resign from the faculty...