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...baseball bat. If the delegate was considered unfriendly, he might be seated on the convention floor with a husky C.I.O. "guardian" on either side. With the aid of such tactics the Williams coalition carried the day. By the 1950 state convention they owned the Democratic Party of Michigan, lock, stock, policy and patronage...
Hiss. Then Hiss, unaware of what Chambers testified, was asked about certain details of his own life. His facts and Chambers' fell together like tumblers in the lock of a safe...
There were arguments pro & con over who helps the church more-the active priest or the contemplative. Said the Right Rev. M. James Fox, Abbot of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky,* whose monks take a vow never to speak, "Silence does not lock the soul in a prison . . . Silence merely gives you a heart filled with Jesus." Countered Dom Aelred Graham, a Benedictine who writes and teaches, "It is possible to do more good and lose nothing of contemplation by creative and more active work for society...
Just then, however, an automobile stopped and was parked near the shadows in which Jacobs and Green were loitering. A woman got out of it and headed for a nearby house. The driver, a middle-aged man, stayed behind to lock the automobile's doors. Jacobs muttered, "This is it." He sidled up to the man, poked him in the ribs with the pistol and ordered him to get back behind the wheel. The victim, a warehouse supervisor named Alfred McCullaugh, obeyed without a word. Green climbed in beside him. The pistolwaving Jacobs got into the back seat...
...soon be licked. He predicts that by 1954 raw titanium will drop to $3 a lb., and that production will leap from its present 1,400 tons a year to 6,000 tons. But his sights are far higher. Says Dick: "Titanium will some day be used for the lock on your door...