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...survival depends on the sufferance of the Assembly, where he lacks the support of the biggest party (the Gaullists), is only tolerated by the No. 2 party, the Socialists, and scornfully rejected by the No. 3 party (the Communists). The Gaullists are still intent on letting France sink to such sorry straits that it will put De Gaulle in command. The Socialists were willing last week to let Faure come to power as head of a coalition of the center, but unwilling to make that coalition strong by joining it themselves. Faure's pieced-together cabinet of 40 ministers...
...ENDLESSLY BAFFLED AT THE NEVER-ENDING PLUNGE OF THE AMERICAN FEMALE, LEMMING-LIKE, INTO THE SEA OF MATRIMONY, TO SINK BELOW THE WAVES OF DISHWATER, BABY BATHS, LAUNDRY, SCRUBBING . . . NOBODY BUT A HOPELESS FOOL WOULD SACRIFICE HER FREEDOM FOR SUCH A HORRIBLE REWARD...
Parlay. In Detroit, after Duane Hunter, n, told how he had run a $30 stake up to $2,805 at the horse races, the judge ordered him to sink all his winnings in U.S. defense bonds...
Several times the Crimson was guilty of bad clearing. Bob Babine took advantage of one of these lapses to set up the first B.C. goal. Frequently Harvard failed to cover adequately its own zone. A miscue of this sort allowed Frank O'Grady to sink B.C.'s second tally, after a pass-and-rebound play by Joe Hosford and John Hansbery had drawn goalie Nate Corning...
...Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls; Novelist Walter Edmonds turned historian in They Fought with What They Had to tell the griefs of U.S. airmen in the first months of the Pacific war; and the submariners got some of their due in Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood's Sink 'Em All and Battle Submerged by Rear Admiral Harley Cope and Captain Walter Karig. For pure excitement, there was nothing better than the diary kept by a French fighter pilot in the British air force, Pierre Clostermann's The Big Show...