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...line, the crowd surged past the police line, shoving the dignitaries perilously close to the still-whirling propellers. The scene around the plane's unopened door became a madhouse of shouting ministers and mullahs. One Majlis leader was whacked across the mouth with a large wet floral wreath. Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson, out to say hello to Mossadegh, was caught in the mob at the airport, had his pockets picked (his wallet was later returned intact), but never got to speak to the pallidly beaming Premier...
...gradually revs up the tempo of his life with casual fornications. "She pushed her face with wide wet lips and dark staring eyes up into his. 'Jay, I'm glad it's you instead of the iceman or something.' " But he never comes to know his true self or his native land until he falls head-over-heels in love with a girl named Lulie, straight from the Midwestern heart of America. " 'Husband,' she said. 'Wife,' he said. The words made them bashful. They clung together against their bashfulness . . . The risen...
...Wet weather and Charley Gesen combined yesterday to give the Brown freshman soccer team a 1 to 0 win over the Yardlings at Providence. It was the first time the Bruin Cubs have whitewashed the Crimson...
Adams and Dudley continued their winless ways as they lost to Eliot and Dunster elevens, respectively, in House football contests yesterday. In wet, sloppy affairs, the Elephants handed the Gold Coasters their fifth straight loss, 7 to 0, while the Commuters dropped their fifth in a row to Dunster...
...states' rights cause. "We must not," Byrd warned, "be lulled into a sense of false security if there is some delay in taking up these [civil rights] bills," which he called a "devil's brew." As his tie, ablaze with a Stars & Bars design, fluttered in the wet breeze, Byrd charged Truman with trying to "usurp state police power" by setting up a special FBI for the South, and with following "the primrose path to socialism...