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...increase their control over economic resources, while retaining control over the all-important matter of language instruction. Trudeau was willing to concede some economic autonomy to them, particularly in the area of mineral rights, in return for their support for a new constitutional "Charter of Rights" that would vest additional powers in the federal government...
Still hungry, I returned to my seat, which was behind some guy wearing a bullet-proof vest who kept yelling things I couldn't understand and throwing his arm spasmodically to the side. A crowd had gathered near my seat because Ernie (Mr. Baseball) Banks was visiting with the spectators. He's kind of a sad character now because all he does is greet people who come to watch...
...assassination, he contrived a kind of literary Dunkirk. He smuggled out to the West every one of his divisions and army corps. These had now grown in force and number to include the monumental Gulag Archipelago, The Oak and the Calf and August 1914. He gave instructions that vest-pocket editions of his books be printed in Russian on Bible paper by his Paris publisher for more convenient smuggling to the Soviet Union. At the same time, foreign short-wave stations were regularly broad casting readings from his books to 100 million Soviet listeners. By the time the Kremlin finally...
...oarsmen have yet to decide what shell it will be. They have raced all of this year and last in a Schoenbrod but have been practicing in a brand new Carbocraft, the shell Yale employs. Parker, cards close to the vest, will not say which brand the Crimson will...
...Wark, c 3 0 0 0 TOTALS 30 5 6 4 HOLY CROSS (6) Daignault, cf 5 2 2 0 Irzyk, 2b 4 0 0 1 Perry, ss 5 0 3 2 Soloman, 3b 3 0 1 0 Stenhouse, c 3 1 0 1 Vest, If 3 0 1 0 Johnson, 1b 2 1 0 0 Rockwell, cf 3 1 0 0 LeBlanc, p 2 0 0 0 Scannell, dh 2 1 1 0 TOTALS...