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They were met by H. V. McCreton, British immigration officer. He did not shake hands, sternly explained that they were "prohibited immigrants," permitted to pass through Hong Kong, not welcome to stay...
...trouble on the hill was not over. When guards were ordered to take back control of the prison, they talked of staging their own revolt. Said one: "Those cons have collected weapons we'll be months in finding." Grumbled another: "We should go in there and shake the place down on the pay ($328 monthly maximum) we get?" But finally the guards went back in, and the prison went back to the control of the state. Said one guard: "They gave 'em everything but a guaranteed annual pardon...
...issues traded, 636 closed lower, while only 361 advanced (234 were unchanged). The next day, as traders took part of their sizable one-day profits in blue chips, the index had its big drop. Ordinarily, a one-day drop of more than 7 points in the average would shake the market, set off a prolonged selling wave. But this time no one was frightened. By week's end, the market had settled down, and the blue chips staged a small recovery...
Sardonic "gusts of laughter" shake the goddess' sides, says Graves, when she sees the havoc that has prevailed ever since "the restless and arbitrary male will" usurped "the female sense of orderliness" and loosed upon civilization the sort of ruthless character typified by "Alexander, Pompey and Napoleon...
...Miami Daily News, Jane Wood specializes in offbeat features, seldom lands on the front page. But last week one of Reporter Wood's offbeat features touched off Miami's biggest crime story of the year, exposed a robbery gang led by two cops, and caused another shake-up in Miami's police department, already riddled by bribery charges...