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Three days later, the President of the U.S. went out of his way at a press conference to rap Powers by name, declare that the Powers-led New York newspaper strike, now eleven weeks old, had "long since passed the point of public toleration," and to urge that some sort of "third party" be brought in to settle...
...became more lackadaisical and Columbia moved within 14 points of the coasting Harvard hoopsters. But with five minutes remaining, to quick baskets by McClung and accurate foul shooting from Scully ruined whatever Lion hopes were left. The Crimson hit on 26 of 58 shots and grabbed 42 rebounds to rap up an evening of really fine basketball...
...Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Hopefully, a high-octane refinement of a situation like the Finch-Tregoff trial: a man and his mistress face a murder rap, and the victim, of course, is his wife...
This time the charge was that Hoffa and another Teamster official had violated the Taft-Hartley Law by making $1,008,057 out of a trucking company with which the Teamsters did business. If Hoffa was worried about whether the rap would stick, he certainly managed to conceal his anxiety. During the long wait for the jury, he strutted around the corridors and delivered himself of some cocky, colorful opinions. "These FBI agents," harangued Hoffa, "are all stool pigeons. A bunch of rats and stool pigeons. Give one of them a local with 10,000 members...
...daughter never gave a rap about me," snorted craggy old Author W. Somerset Maugham, 88, and now the feeling was mutual. In a Nice court, Maugham filed a petition to disinherit Elizabeth Mary Maugham, 47, and recover some $2,000,000 worth of gifts he lavished on her since she was born. His penny-novel grounds: Elizabeth is not his legitimate daughter because she was conceived while her mother was still married to another man. He also cited Article 955 of the French Civil Code, which permits the recovery of gifts if the beneficiary is not properly grateful, and Elizabeth...