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When Chile elected González President last year, Communist votes gave him the margin of victory. To show his gratitude, he named three Communists to Cabinet posts. But middle-of-the-road González soon tired of playing footie with the Reds. When Communists took potshots at his administration, he angrily shouted: "The Communists cannot separate me from the people," accused them of treachery, threw them out of the Government...
...second goal of the afternoon on a long pass from Aguirre. Taking the ball away from an Amherst halfback, Aguirre lofted a long boot from midfield which fell just in front of the Amherst goalie. Potter knocked it out of his hands and into the goal for the winning margin...
Meanwhile the self-perpetuating margin writing continues, with comments on the comments as the book passes from hand to hand...
...usually travels to the Olympic games and in 1948 there may be some other nations to play it. If there are and the executive committee decides to send one, the players would be picked individually through regional tryouts. America always wins the Olympic basketball crown by a top-heavy margin, but apparently Europe wants to try again this year and a team will be sent probably picked from the squads who make the finals of the New York Garden tournaments this winter...
...narrow five-point margin separating the two elevens at the final gun can be directly pinned on spotty Crimson backfield work, both offensive and defensive...