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...Exactly! Your vote! With enough men like you around, we can pull the Council out of the doldrums and get seats for everybody on the 50-yard line out of the Yale A.A. next Fall. We can write another constitution, get parking space for the Devens Veterans, run's survey on the number of ex-paratroopers who get past their hour exams, and all kinds of big ideas...
Four goals for the Chasemen in the second period proved the margin of victory. Needham rallied to score twice at the start of the third period and pull up to within one goal of a tie, and the final outcome remained in doubt with both teams staging frequent scoring attacks until Lou Preston sunk the clincher at 15:30 unassisted...
...Lilienthal cause. A Washington Post poll found 68% of the nation's Republican press pro-Lilienthal, only 14% anti. Atomic Trail-Blazer Albert Einstein urged confirmation. M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl Compton warned that many atomic scientists might take Lilienthal's defeat as the cue to pull out of the vast atomic projects...
...Weeks' Wait. After lunch the President went back to his mother's one-and-a-half story frame house to find out what the doctors had to say. The diagnosis: "Complete fracture at the neck of the right femur." Traction should pull the bone into good position, they told him, and she might be out of bed in six weeks...
Suspended Judgment. The people had not entirely given up hope that their King would pull them together. When George left the seclusion of his palace last week to attend a requiem service at the Metropolis Cathedral for a distant relative, Sweden's Prince Gustaf Adolf (recently killed in an airplane crash), the crowd lining University Boulevard neither cheered nor booed; they clapped politely. The people were still willing to withhold their judgment on their King-but not for much longer. Said one Athenian indifferently as the King's grey-green Rolls-Royce passed by: "Oh, I suppose...