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Sharp Crimson fielding kept the scoring down in the first and third innings. In the first, centerfielder Chauncey made a running backhand grab of a liner to right center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Edges Northeastern, 4-3; Rossano Retires 13 in Relief Role | 5/3/1955 | See Source »

...firmly entered in the 20th century rat race as a Madison Avenue adman. No fool, Salesman Rantz snows the natives under with his bag of jokes-which terrify the islanders. He makes a laughingstock of the chief and moves into his job. By the native code losers in the grab for power are exiled to the other side of the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Apr. 18, 1955 | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...tried to grab a policeman's club was beaten insensible, and several others were clubbed. The clang of ambulances sounded above the shouts and rumbles. An iron fence collapsed, carrying a knot of shrieking women to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Down with Collard! | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...Washington bureaucrats turn down a chance to grab more power, but the Federal Power Commission has done so repeatedly when it comes to regulating the prices of natural gas in the field. It accepted the job only when the U.S. Supreme Court so ordered (TIME, June 14). Last week FPC Chairman Jerome Kuykendall appeared before a House Commerce Committee to tell why the Supreme Court was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Fixing the Gas Bill | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...insistence on annexing part of Eastern Poland. Before Yalta, it was understood that the Poles would be compensated by giving them German territory in the West. U.S. policy, as defined by the State Department in preparation for Yalta, was to hold down the size of Stalin's grab, thus minimizing the cruel displacement of population on both of Poland's borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yalta Story: Poland | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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