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...thin and haggard at 72, some times relying on a wheelchair, betrayed little emotion as he was led out of the courtroom, head bowed. Said Sprague: "I felt right back from the beginning that it was Boyle. I knew that I would never get to the top in one snap. It was going to be a slow process. Had we lost any one of the previous cases leading up to Boyle, the chain would have been broken...
Coxswain Nancy Hadley said, "It was a better start than last week, although it doesn't really have the snap to it that it should have...
...Grow vegetables in the backyard. A 15-ft. by 25-ft. garden planted with tomatoes, carrots, snap beans, peas, celery, spinach, lettuce, parsley and beets can produce about $350 worth of fresh vegetables at today's prices. Any surplus can be home-canned or frozen...
...Snap Votes. The chances are good that Wilson will survive until that deadline, though he is in no position to drop his guard. Whenever a Tory whip suspects that he has enough M.P.s on the Commons floor to defeat the government, he could call a snap vote on some minor issue. Normally, that kind of defeat could force a government to resign. But Wilson has served notice that he would treat the results of a snap vote merely "with suitable respect, not exaggerated respect." Even if the Tories and Liberals combine this week to defeat Labor on the traditional vote...
...explore air routes over the Atlantic. Scattered among the details of such travel are passages of sharp perception. Commenting on a dinner with Harold Nicolson and his wife V. Sackville-West, Anne writes: "What is there about the English? You seem to be talking openly with perfect naturalness when-snap-the blind goes up (or down, actually) ... and you're left staring at the shutters." On the first anniversary of the tragedy. "The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold...