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...student testified that "at the station I got a blow on the chin and hit the officer back. I was being, dragged to the cell block when a lieutenant came by and recognized me, and had me released. Another witness reported that "Sullivan (city Councillor) went up to a student and asked him if he was 21 and a Cambridge resident. He replied yes and Sullivan said, 'I'll see if I can get you released'." Sullivan denied this charge last night...
...lost cause." He enters a half-waking trance, broken only by his groaning, hiccuping and incomprehensible muttering. In the small hours of May 5, 1821, he cries: "Who retreats?", and then.: "At the head of the Army!" In the late afternoon, Napoleon sighs three times, his pupils flicker, his chin twitches up & down with "clockwork regularity"-and an equerry hurries off to inform the British governor that it is all over...
Heavyweight contender Rocky Marciano knocked out Bernie Reynolds with a terrific hight hook to the chin at 2:21 of the third round of their scheduled 10 rounder last night to make that Fair field. Conn boxer his 35th knockout victim in an unbeaten string of 40 fights...
...Communist war in Malaya has been deeply embarrassing to the British. So has Chin Peng. They quietly withdrew his O.B.E. in 1948, but for years did not name him as the leader of the Communists. The advantage was Chin's: his terror gained from being secret and anonymous...
Last week Britain's dynamic General Sir Gerald Templer, new High Commissioner for Malaya, upped the price on the heads of 26 of Malaya's Communist guerrilla leaders. But for 31-year-old Chin Peng, believed hiding in the Pahang jungles, Templer offered the highest reward. He would pay, he said, $42,000 for Chin's dead body, or $83,500 for Chin alive. A Singapore wag pointed out that $83,500 was no more than the first prize in the Malayan Chinese Association Lottery. It is also exactly what Chin's operations cost the British...