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...month apartment, stocked it with whisky and used it as a place to bring chosen bobby-soxers. When a neighboring gang, the Brewerytowners, tried to muscle in on them, the Counts took them on in street fights. But Angel Williams, always the organizer, said, "This is a lousy setup. Let's get together." The result was the "Green Street Counts Peace Treaty...
...life has been a curious mingling, yet tug of war, between Boston and Ireland. He came from County Clare to Boston Latin School at the age of 15. After gradation he worked for the Post as a night office boy. "The Post had a wonderful free and easy setup," he recalls. "Any kid off the streets could get space for a colorful story." During the day he went to Suffolk Law School. In three years he had worked up to a reporter's job, and then, "when I heard they had made me a reporter I quit...
...Everything I have seen or heard indicates conspicuous improvement. It is always a mistake to confuse bigness with greatness. This is a laboratory demonstration of better government and a healthy economic setup. The fact that it is small does not mean it is worthless. It can be the most important historical accomplishment of many years if not many centuries in the Far East . . . [Formosa is] an essential part of the Pacific defense of the free world...
Several changes make for a more streamlined emergency command setup-or, as Moscow's official communiqué put it, "more operative leadership." The changes: ¶A few years ago, Beria, Molotov and Bulganin stopped actually running their ministries, remained on the all-powerful Politburo, free to think and plan; the ministries were taken over by lesser lights, e.g., Andrei Vishinsky replaced Molotov as Foreign Minister. Now the top boys are back in charge of their departments and the second-stringers are kicked downstairs, e.g., Vishinsky is now only deputy minister and chief representative at U.N. ¶At last October...
...setup, the girls will manage their own marketing and cooking, independently of the College. Similar setups are now being used in three 'Cliffe Houses' Peach, Edmunds, and Everett...