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They Ran Him Home. Walter Webb, big, strong and blue-eyed, was once a soldier and twice married. He was too vivid to be ignored, too likable when sober, too lethal when drunk. He killed his best friend in a quarrel over local politics and was put away for two years, although Doric always said, "He done it in self-defense." In 1944, to avenge another killing, Webb and a friend shot down a man in broad daylight at Hen's Corner, a moonshine saloon in the county seat of Manchester (pop. 1,706). Under oath Webb testified...
Moscow won an easy team victory (159-89), but for London, the 5,000-meter race was the meet. Only Chris Chataway had some sober second thoughts. Looking ahead to the next Olympics, he shook his head and mumbled: "I'd still back Zatopek to beat us both...
While green sweaters and chinos seem to be the clothing standard at Hanover, there are places where students wear coats and ties. This is a paradox. While being Collegiate seems to be the intellectual standard at Dartmouth, there are places where students wear sober expressions. This is even more of a paradox...
...special session of the U.S. Senate-only the common sense and alerted conscience of the American people -can justly weigh one sober charge against Senator Joseph McCarthy. The charge is: more deeply than any living American, he has hurt his country's chances to rally the peoples of Europe against Communism...
...equally severe problems: "The pregnant woman is traditionally allowed to be emotionally unstable, subject to ... capricious appetites . . . And the pregnant woman who does not show some of these vagaries is often subtly encouraged to do so by her friends . . . However sublime it may be under the proper circumstances, in sober fact the pregnancy may express hostility on the part of either husband or wife, increase the self-esteem of either, or be a mere coincidence . . . For the woman who has been trained to regard men as beasts, sexual intercourse as vile, and childbirth as a sort of vaginal Armageddon...