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...rapid succession, the doctor and his aides dealt out pinpointed, no-nonsense psychotherapy to the engineer, to Midgie (his trouble: stealing), to the backward schoolgirl (her basic trouble: a nagging ailing mother) and to 20 other patients. At 8:30 p.m., long after the official closing hour, the doctor called...
...Felix had a shotgun in the house; whether or not he pointed it at Sheriff Ennis is still in dispute. Anyway, the sheriff let go with his submachine gun. Felix tottered backward, died in his daughter Victoria's arms. Geronimo's uncles, Domingo and Antonio, came running from the back of the house. Ennis wheeled on the porch, fired another burst. They fell dead, too. Economical Ennis had fired only five shots-two for Felix, two for Dom and one for Tony...
...however, the Bulldogs began to smart. With the opening of the fourth period they commenced an inexorable drive that drove the determined, but tiring Yardlings ever backward. From the 46 yard line Brad Quackenbush, who had played an excellent supporting game at left half, broke loose to put his teammates behind by one point...
...artillery that precedes each election, Cambridge voters are liable to enter the polls this November with ringing ears and empty heads. The battle for six seats on Cambridge's School Committee seems in danger of being deflected along religious and partisan lines; while the true issue, the City's backward school system, remains skillfully camouflaged. With mournful cries of political domination by a clique of "Tory Rowers," certain bureaucrats hope to divert attention from their incompetence and, by injecting bigotry in the place of analysis, securely fasten themselves to the gravy train. But no amount of rabid oration or pretended...
...strength of a quick look backward to previous tussles with this recurring crisis of the Forties, the Student Council might well undertake a two-fold program. The first and most crucial aspect would entail revitalizing its Relief Committee. Here the emphasis must fall upon providing a sense of personal student participation in aiding the shipment of food and other supplies to specific parties abroad. For the second phase of its program the Council should seriously consider a plan for stopping general food waste in the dining halls. While this is an impersonal method, the results will fit neatly into...