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...left side, scrappy Jim Johnson is making a strong bid for the inside position, while sophomore Berk Johnson has been looking good in the vacant wing slot. Already the line has begun to show scoring punch in practice...
...What's the matter?" asked Otto, and got no answer: Doyle was already dead. After police carried off the body and helped Otto away, standees scrambled for the two vacant seats, and the game began...
When Sunde called for a show of hands, the resolution passed. Seven voted for (Britain, China, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Norway, U.S.) and three abstained (Egypt, India, Yugoslavia). Russia's seat was still vacant. Next day President Truman designated Douglas MacArthur as commander of U.N. forces in Korea...
...vacant lot, two kids wrestle among the blackened cans and broken glass. Men sit on the stoops of the rotting brownstone tenements, or stand in curiously static groups around a store front. There are girls in short, shiny black dresses, insolent-eyed young bucks in sharp, striped suits. Dogs, furtive and thin-ribbed, slink through the areaways sniffing for scraps. In an abandoned building, windows glare emptily, but a family is living in the basement. From other windows patched with adhesive tape and cardboard, women watch the noisy street with worried eyes. They seldom scream-at the kids, as women...
...weeks' campaigning which preceded last week's elections to the upper chamber of the Diet, the House of Councilors. At stake in the elections were the seats of 125 Councilors whose terms ended this year, as well as seven more seats which had fallen vacant through death or resignation. A major shift in the distribution of these 132 seats could change significantly the complexion of the 250-man House...