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...fulfill this expectation . . . the law seems more & more to be called on ... to pull him out of the ditch, bind up his wounds, set him on his way and pay his hotel bill...
...League squash matches yesterday, third-place Dunster knocked off league-leader Adams, 3 to 2. This enabled Eliot to pull into a first-place tie with the Gold Coasters by shutting out Leverett, 5 to 0. Lowell downed Kirkland by a 3 to 2 score...
...González was expected to name a new cabinet of career public servants. It was still too early to tell how seriously the "chain" had weakened his grip on the government. But the week's events had made one thing clear: González could no longer pull himself through by crying "Red plot!" He would have to find some immediate way of easing the burden of inflation for the working classes. If he failed, González' government-and Chile's democracy-would be in danger...
...Ingrid's nursing schedule. Obstetrician Dr. Giuseppe Sannicandro gave Rome's radio audience a play-by-play account of the delivery ("We used the same sort of sedative that was administered to Rita Hay worth"). Three jeeploads of the celere, the Rome riot squad, were summoned to pull clambering reporters off the clinic wall and to guard not only the building but also Ingrid's room from photographers...
...took a moment for the realization to spread that the tappings were coming from those left outside, knocking hopefully on one of the exit-doors at the rear of the balcony--hoping that there might be one more scat inside. The man who had charge of such things would pull back the curtain on the door and tell them to go away. But later there would come another tapping on another door--always a rather pathetic sound in the filled hall as the tappings resounded between the pauses in Mrs. Roosevelt's speech...