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...Sudden approach of many close football games leaves poor prognosticator panting in wake like Big Bad Wolf that tried to blow down Little Pig's house. Like Wolf color finally turns to purple as poor, panting prognosticator contemplates Holy Cross. Ignorant people say Holy Cross will Reiss to the occasion and Crusader's Notre Dame system will lead them out of the Woods, but greater knowledge reveals their attack will be Britt-le. Harvard will run round Purple ends till Sheehands outpoints with final score 20-13 for Crimson...
...another man might smack flies, big-fisted General Augustin P. Justo smacks Argentine revolts, bosses Congress (down whose retching throat he recently jammed Argentine adherence to the World Wheat Pact) and generally has fun. Last week neither the sudden discovery that agents of the Radical Party had perfected plots for a "general uprising," nor the sudden illness of Vice President Julio Roca could make President Justo change his plan of rolling up to Rio on a battleship...
Next day soldiers policed the streets as the Communists started their funeral procession, carrying Martyr Mella's ashes in two tin-boxes. Suddenly snipers, whom the Government later branded as Communists, began a random reckless fire from the rooftops which at first crackled over the heads of the Communists and soldiers. Instantly soldiers began to fire, some kneeling and shooting directly into the Communist ranks. Only a sudden burst of tropical rain cut short what might have been a massacre, but two hours later firing began again...
When an airplane is left standing at an airport, it is the practice on some airlines to tie the control wheel, lest a sudden gust flip the control surfaces about, damage them or even upset the plane. Last week the control-lashing practice was blamed for a crackup. A big biplane of Eastern Air Transport, loaded with 15 passengers, had taken off from Newark Airport, climbed some 50 ft. and flopped down again. Alleged reason: a mechanic failed to unlash the control stick before the plane took...
...obeying an incongruous twirk of conscience, they have decided to use legal processes to discover and convict those they accuse of the crime. This was a mistake. For the legal process has enabled the real defendants--Torgler, Dmitroff, and Teneff--to demonstrate quite conclusively that only if sudden insanity had seized them would they even have conceived the idea of burning the Reichstag, and that as a matter of strict fact it was physically impossible, none of them having been near the place within hours of the outbreak of fire. Torgler especially impressed the court and the world with...