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...room in the swank Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore when he discovered how right those reports were. Waiters belonging to the Auténtico faction refused to serve him (but servants who followed their union's Communist leaders loyally made his bed). As the 2,000 pistol-packing, trigger-happy delegates (both Auténticos and Communists) jockeyed to get their credentials certified, pistols popped. One Auténtico was killed, one wounded. Later, two auto loads of Auténticos raced by Communist headquarters, sprayed the entrance with their automatics...
Prince Charming? The great question mark that hovers perpetually over any heiress has never left Lilibet. Since she was first able to blow a kiss from her cradle, Britain's cooing matchmakers have been at work on her. When the Princess took to nightclubbing, the speculation, abetted by trigger-fingered columnists, increased tenfold, until any sleek young lord seen dancing twice with Lilibet was a marked man. Since she seldom sits one out (she is a gifted and tireless dancer), the field was enormous. But during the last year it has narrowed to a single contestant: a well-scrubbed...
...were charged with a blanket warrant for murder. Taking no chances, Greenville's sheriff clapped 30 of them into jail, kept a cell ready for the 31st. Bail was set at $2,500. Among the 31, but not yet identified, police were sure they had the actual trigger...
...week's end the still-bewildered Guild announced that its strike was still on, against whoever tried to resume publication. Yet national Guild leaders knew that they had suffered a major blow. They had pulled the trigger on Dave Stern, and the gun had backfired...
...such a situation the moderates had no chance to exploit the advantage that mediation by a third party presented. Truces were signed, properly witnessed, passed on to troops in the field, and backed by teams of all three interested parties--only to be broken time and again by the trigger-happy commanders to whom a truce was for the other side to keep. Both factions came to look upon American efforts as strictly partisan, not to be taken too seriously, and the whole scheme of mediation broke down under the onslaught of self-interest...