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...beautiful afternoon, and the large crowd saw a well-played first half, at the end of which the score read Crimson 10, Bowdoin 1. Then the weather grew colder, the play became sloppier, and some of the spectators headed downstream to watch the heavyweight crew whip Syracuse and Brown. But the kids here for the annual PBH kiddies day stayed until the bitter...
Desperately, Gilbert sawed on the reins and slashed with his whip. But Plenty Papaya bolted back to the inside. Just before hitting the barrier, horse and rider parted company. The railbirds were watching the front runners, and no one saw what happened next. But an aluminum-shod hoof or the concrete base of a rail post shattered the jockey's skull. Roy Gilbert died on the way to a hospital...
...long labor riots and the nation's economic malaise, Belgium was limp, dispirited and hardly in a mood for another round of national elections. Not even the campaign speeches of popular Paul-Henri Spaak. who quit as NATO Secretary-General to take over leadership of the Socialists, could whip up the listless crowds. Spaak's electioneering Socialists blamed Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Catholic-backed Social Christians for the Congo debacle, and attacked Eyskens' sensible but unpopular economic austerity program-price of the lost Congo- because it meant higher taxes and reduced pensions. Belgium's voters...
House Democratic Whip Carl Albert of Oklahoma offered the compromise bill to reduce the number of newly covered workers from 4,300,000 to 3,600,000 and exempt firms doing more than 75% of their business in a single state. But dozens of pro-Administration Democrats were afraid to stand up and be counted. Down went the compromise by an eyelash 186-185. Then, by 216 to 203, the House eased through a Republican-Southern Democrat bill: raise the wage to $1.15 for presently covered workers, set a $1 floor for some 1,400,000 additional workers...
...size of the bat that gets home runs-it's the speed with which you swing it. So now everyone uses a bat with a thin handle and a long taper, so that most of the wood's in the end. You can whip this one around and get power in your swing...