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...early practice times, Bill Morris, captain of the '57 team, has gotten the number one spot on the team. Don French, a hard-working junior, may displace Morris, however, before Tuesday's triangular meet with Providence and Boston University...
...year, incidentally, and quite good by service standards. In the final inning, the team included Leo Durocher at short and Freddie Fitzsimmons pitching (no runs were scored). This brought real nostalgia to the older spectators present and a rousing ovation for the two good sports who could easily have gotten conked by a batted ball from the husky Army batters...
...Oklahoma would restrict the suffrage to those who had something more in their heads than can be gotten from "country" music and singing commercials, no candidate would ask for votes on the ground that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." Democracy should not be degraded to a device for the amusement of morons...
...their duty to defend Portuguese sovereignty. Suddenly, a voice from the edge of the crowd shouted a demand that Rozaerio surrender the village to India. Rozaerio, aware that he had a fight on his hands, seized his rifle and began spraying bullets into the lingering darkness. He had not gotten far when villagers, who had been waiting beneath a nearby banyan tree, surrounded him. One stunned him with a stick from behind, another stabbed him to death, and Dadra was lost by Portugal. Within a few days, Indian nationalists gained control of six more villages in the Portuguese district...
...rulers in Moscow and Peking?" Adenauer shushed him by calling such talk appeasement. But after target dates for EDC ratification by the French came & went without action, and the French government tottered feebly, the mutters in Germany increased. The German Chancellor's policy, said the critics, had gotten his nation nothing from either West or East. German businessmen, their production lines overflowing, lusted for Eastern outlets...