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...fell to the police to disperse the marchers. They began by trying to wrest an Italian flag from the column leaders, and in the scuffle they began swinging rifle butts and truncheons (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The Triestini counterattacked with a hail of paving stones. By midnight about 15 rioters had been hurt, scores arrested...
...Good to Be True. For the Christian Democrats, for Adenauer himself and for his friends in the Wrest, the overwhelming victory seemed almost too good to be true. Characteristically, many a German, like many wondering observers elsewhere (see INTERNATIONAL), began to look for flaws in the picture...
Almost as famous in Greek mythology as the Trojan War is the tale of the Seven against Thebes. It is all about the sons of King Oedipus. One, Prince Polyneices, got together with seven brave friends to wrest the throne of seven-gated Thebes from his brother. In this fratricidal war, Polyneices and five of his friends were killed in action.* After another war about the disposal of their bodies, they were supposedly buried at Eleusis, 14 miles northwest of Athens...
...hitchhiked to San Marcos and enrolled at the Southwest Texas State Teachers College. As many another youth of his age turned to sports, young Johnson turned to debate and campus politics. He became the star debater; he organized a new faction, which he called the "White Stars," to wrest control of campus politics from the entrenched, athlete-dominated "Black Stars...
...facilities equal. (The Ford company, which made a total of 1,678,954 cars and trucks last year, is well behind G.M.'s total production of 2,234,-397). But when the time of production equality comes-and buyers get more choosy-the Ford brothers think they will wrest back the title they lost to Chewy 18 years ago. Said HF II earnestly: "As soon as we can outproduce them, we'll outsell them...