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...familiar view of the great man in his hour of trial. During it, there were three unprescribed noises not all of which were fully audible to the nation. Once little, Julie Hamilton, 5, came to the head of the stairs in her nightie and called "Daddy." Again with a sudden hum the Hamiltons' electric refrigerator switched on and radio technicians gritted their teeth. Finally as Hugo Black finished talking and reached for a cigaret, one of the guests in the dining room applauded...
...kidnap the radio general himself. Weeks ago General Queipo de Llano set out on an inspection trip of the lines north of Córdoba. Entranced by his ceaseless flow of conversation, staff officers did not notice until almost too late that the chauffeur had put on a sudden burst of speed, was heading straight for the Leftist lines. A quick revolver shot in the back killed the chauffeur, ended the attempt. The party drove back to headquarters quietly...
Because the Northeast was hit by a sudden warm spell, last week visitors found hawks relatively few over Hawk Mountain. Next fortnight is expected to be the best of the season for hawkseeing. With the broadwing season about over the migrators will be led by sharp-shins and redtails, with a scattering of the first golden eagles...
...spurt: it was definitely on the down grade. The New York Times weekly business index has dropped steadily from above in. its Recovery high registered in the middle of August, to less than 105, lowest since last February. Everyone had heard disturbing tales of layoffs, close downs, price cuts, sudden cancelations, ominous inventories, dwindling backlogs. And if the stockmarket were any indication, the country was in for cloudy weather, possibly showers...
...Count Juichi Terauchi's army had gotten slightly behind its timetable, the Japanese lines were lengthening ominously as they stabbed further into China, and on the whole so many retreating Chinese managed to escape and fight again another day that Japanese headquarters were tense with strain-afraid of sudden intervention by Soviet Russia should it seem to Moscow that Tokyo's forces are overextended. In a stiff note this week Moscow explicitly rejected Japanese charges that Chinese planes disguised as Japanese were going to bomb the Soviet Embassy at Nanking, warned that if it is bombed under...