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Bradford Durfee Prep School will be the target for the blades of the Yardling fencing team today. The meet will be held at the Fall River YMCA...
...days (his smile was as big at 11 p.m. as it was at 6 a.m.), the Senator from Ohio held press conferences before breakfast, met coveys of politicians, students, businessmen and farmers, ate fried chicken at box suppers, and all the while held a steady bead on his main target: the Truman Administration...
Senator John J. Williams, the Delaware Republican who touched off the scandals in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, fired another salvo last week. His target was Joseph D. Nunan Jr., Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 1944 until he resigned in 1947, with a warm letter of thanks from Harry Truman, to become a Manhattan tax attorney. Many of the officials whom the tax scandals have forced out of office were his close associates, but Nunan himself had appeared only on the edges of the investigations. Senator Williams now fitted him into a gallery of old familiar faces...
...politicians of France leapt to their feet and exploded into applause. Ex-Defense Minister Jules Moch, whose hatred of the Germans is twofold (he is Jewish, and lost his son in the Resistance), warmly embraced Heuillard. Robert Schuman, whose efforts to sell German rearmament to his countrymen were the target of Heuillard's passionate attack, advanced toward him, tears -in his eyes, to shake the deputy's hand...
...puts them through their paces. Using .22 caliber pistols-because they are easy to shoot and ammunition is cheap-the squad practices pumping bull's-eyes into a man-sized silhouette at 25 meters. The problem: learning to hit the mark in the three-second interval that the target faces the shooter...