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Since there was no team scoring, placing and times served only to give McCurdy a good indication of how his squad will stack up when formal competition starts on October 10. No men who are not on the official squad competed...
...myself on corruption. I am not only against it, I have actually done something about it. I was elected in Illinois to clean out one of the most corrupt regimes that ever inflicted itself on the state. And it was, by the way, a Republican regime ... I will stack up my record against that of any other man who has faced the problems of corruption in real life, and not just from the political rostrum...
Solemnly chewing betel nut, he walked to Magsaysay, handed over his two pistols and a symbolic stack of 24 firearms, including BARs, carbines and old Japanese guns. In smooth tau-sog, Kamlon pledged the help of his band of 300 in Magsaysay's new campaign to quell the Moros, who are second only to the Communist Huks in defiance of Manila's rule. In English, Magsaysay praised Kamlon's guerrilla fight against the Japanese and promised him possible clemency, even offered to help Kamlon make the pilgrimage to Mecca. Then came the feast-mountains of eggs, crabs...
Rules of the Game. EPU's billion-dollar monthly turnover resembles nothing so much as an all-night poker game. When the cards were dealt in 1950, every player had a tidy little stack of EPUnits (one unit equals $1), distributed according to size. Iceland was low man with $15 million; the vast sterling area, which was admitted as a single trading partner, got $1.06 billion. If any nation went into debt, its IOUs were good, at least at the beginning. But the rules of the game made it tough on reckless losers: the moreIOUs a nation wrote...
Secret Dinner. Within the past month Perón's police have secretly picked up at least two U.S. Government employees in Buenos Aires and grilled them. Both work for the U.S. Information Service. Roberto Mujica Lainez, a onetime Argentine newsman, was confronted at police headquarters with a stack of papers taken from his home. One showed a diagram of the seating arrangement for a dinner party he had just given. "What are these blueprints for?" barked a cop. Finally released, Mujica was ordered not to tell a word about the questioning...