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...afterward, "the greatest tennis I have ever seen anywhere in the world." It was a battle of slam-bang serves, whistling forehands and slashing backhands by. the two hardest hitters in amateur tennis today. And when it was over, young Hoad had squared matters at two-all after a three-hour battle...
...G.O.P. senators, pained at such blunt tactics against one of their own, wavered and weasled and, after an unhappy, three-hour meeting last week, reached a face-saving compromise: Wicks would be allowed to resign sometime before the start of the next regular session Jan. 6. Wicks continued to preside as the senate passed a legislative reapportionment bill and moved toward adjournment; not a word was said on the floor about his removal...
...Digest as it is will not win many votes for the Democratic party. Besides its sophistication, which automatically limits its audience, its content is just too slanted. Reading it is like sitting through a three-hour campaign rally. I have a suspicion almost all its readers are Democrats to start with. But as a monthly dose of propaganda, it will keep the faithful happy, their barrels fully loaded for any Republican who happens within earshot...
...course is represented in the form of several books which must be read by the end of January, at which time each student may write a three-hour essay examination upon with his entire grade will rest...
Next day the lion's jaws closed. Frank E. Holman, 67, Seattle corporation lawyer and A.B.A. past president who gave Ohio's Senator John Bricker the idea for the amendment, stopped chain-smoking cigars long enough to take the floor in the three-hour debate in the house of delegates. Holman wasted little time on the specific points of the Dulles argument. His appeal was to a deep-seated legal concept: the force of precedent, stare decisis. If the house of delegates "turned turtle" now after twice backing the Bricker Amendment, warned Holman, the A.B.A. would lose...