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...upset he was at the cavalier treatment some of his proposals were getting in Congress. Asked to comment on the House's action in killing the Administration's health-reinsurance plan, the President stared ahead for a moment, his mouth turned sternly down. As he answered, his fist drummed the desk, his voice rose angrily. Clearly indicating that he regards his health plan as the last barrier against socialized medicine, Ike warned that the public was going to get better care one way or the other. Said he: "I am sure that the people that voted against this...
Hardly able to breathe, he fought back gamely. Fight fans who had doubted Charles's courage saw him stand up to every punch in the book. For the first time in years, a heavyweight bout looked like the fist fight the crowd expected...
...MichiganState College was having its troubles with members of its football squad. Within a few months, Star End Bill Quinlan has been dropped from the squad after being involved in a brawl outside a sorority house, Fullback Vic Postula got into a fist fight, ended up by knocking some of his opponent's teeth out, and Halfback Gene Lekenta is facing trial for assault on another student...
...last week's election, which was unmarred by so much as a fist fight, Price harangued a crowd of 5.000 ebony-to-copper-hued partisans. "P.U.P., all de way," chanted the audience. When a speaker hailed Price as "our Gandhi, our George Washington and our future President," a plump mammy in the crowd cackled: "Dat's right, mon, dat's right." But P.U.P. leaders, soft-pedaling their old independence cry, said that the new majority wants first to cooperate with the governor and show that it is a stable and permanent political force. For a beginning, they...
...tied it up, 3-3 in the ninth, the excitement in the presidential box mounted perceptibly, and in the tenth, when Washington's Mickey Vernon finally polished off the game ( 5-3) with a sizzling home run over the right-field fence, Ike stood up and pounded his fist in his hand, and Mamie hugged and kissed Griffith. As the triumphant Washington players gathered around Vernon, Ike leaned precariously over the edge of his box and shook Vernon's hand. "Wonderful," he said. "Wonderful home...