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...with explosive isobutane, as he barreled along on Franklin Canyon Highway one day last week. On a curve outside Pinole, Calif., he swung around a car. Another car was coming toward him. A woman was driving, and there were three kids in the back seat. Billy saw the car waver, then veer to the wrong side of the road. Billy wrenched at the big wheel, sent the rig thundering off the pavement, across a shallow ditch, through a barbed-wire fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Take It Easy | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Receiving its first performance was the Sonatine for Clarinet and Strings by the conductor, Nicholas Van Slyck. A clarinet work is always awaited with some apprehension, but such fears were unjustified, for Aaron Johnson played eloquently and without a waver. The work is a very interesting one for its changing rhythms and themes. Step by step I think it has fascination, but at the close, I had little feeling for its unity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Weekend Concerts Held in Sanders | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...even in the usually placid interval between halves did last Saturday's high pitch of excitement waver. Definitely outclassed instrumentally along the ground, the B.U. band resorted to the use of their air arm to gain a tie in the much heralded-by BU tub thumpers-battle of the bands...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Torrid Twirler Tantalizes Ten Thousand Men | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Charted Policy. The world would probably see few changes in U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. was committed to U.N. and to devoting all its powers to make it work. The line toward Russia would not waver; the atom secret would not be given away until the U.S. program for internationalization was accepted. The U.S. still stood for disarmament-when all other major powers are ready to do the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: We Will Keep the Covenant | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...great majority of students in one way or another, and many students in several ways. For instance, one of the eighteen proposed activities suggests a "student employment center...to find employment for students along lines for which they have prepared." As a middle-man between employer and hopeful diploma-waver, the possibilities of such a center are tremendous. Other suggestions, such as the one which would "encourage the raising of the level of housing for all students and especially direct attention to the needs of married students," show the nature of the conference's interests to tally with those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbaited | 1/7/1947 | See Source »

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