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Trouble began when left-wing leaders of Sohyo, the General Council of Japanese Labor Unions, tried to pin the blame for the party losses on a right-wing faction accused of criticizing the Socialist campaign against the U.S. security treaty and of "opposing the description of the Socialist Party as a class party." The right-wingers, led by veteran 68-year-old Suehiro Nishio, who has the support of more than a third of the Socialist members of the lower house of the Diet, promptly walked out of the hall, agreed to return only on condition that the left wing...
...boom was started by automatic pin-spotting equipment, introduced successfully for the first time by American Machine & Foundry Co. in 1952. Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. followed with its automatic machines in 1956. Not only did the automated equipment eliminate the vagaries of pin boys, but they also made 24-hour-a-day bowling possible, caused alley owners to start big promotions, notably on TV shows, to keep the alleys busy...
...workers start bowling at Dallas Cotton Bowling Palace at 4 a.m. after the night shift ends.) New England, the heart of smaller-sized duck-and candlepins. is giving way to the tenpin boom. Between them A.M.F. and Brunswick claim this year they will add some 25,000 new automatic pin-setting machines in bowling alleys across the nation...
...dressed up in a circle pin, a pearl necklace, an orchid and an ageless smile, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses handled a silver knife with the art that comes from practice. She was cutting birthday cake...
...with hokum in his manner and magic in his bones. Starlings? There's a way to get rid of them. Step a little closer and we'll talk terms. Mount Vernon stepped a little closer, saw the shimmering words on the stranger's golden tie pin. He was, by self-proclamation, THE BIRD...