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...throwing in the towel, went to the referee charging that Molineaux had lead weights concealed in his fists. The referee, who by the rules should have given the fight to Molineaux, played along with the stalling tactic of Cribb's handlers, waiting for Cribb to revive. In the interim, Molineaux, unaccustomed to the climate, developed a chill. Cribb won in the 40th round...
...account for the next half-century, the Chicago authorities closed the club. To substantiate the case against him under the Mann Act, white women, some of whom had never even met Johnson, took bribes and testified against him. Johnson was convicted, then the ruling was overturned. But, in the interim, Johnson had jumped bail and fled to Europe...
...anything, his problem has been just the opposite. Rather than being simple and ludicrous, his plots have been intricate and Byzantine, his style deep and tricky. For just that reason, he hasn't had a major success since the publication of Long Day's Dying in 1950. In the interim he has tried, again and again, to produce a first rate novel, and never quite succeeded. For fun, he has also taught English, and, last year, gave the Noble Lectures at the Harvard Divinity School...
...Interim Rent-Control Administrator Philip M. Cronin had previously been sharply criticized for his interpretation of fair net income as between 10 to 15 per cent of market value...
...issued this month in its full form, caused an immediate storm. It was condemned by spokesmen of the aerospace industry. The Pentagon-treated to an advance look-strongly urged the GAO to do its sums over again. The Pentagon's concern over the GAO's "interim" findings was understandable enough. The report contains startling disparities between the pretax profits that defense and space contractors acknowledged in reply to a GAO questionnaire and the GAO's findings after a detailed study of 146 recently completed contracts totaling $4,256,000,000. This is how they compared...