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...paper clip was invented, perhaps as far back as the 13th century, to clip papers. Since then, it has been one of the most useful of all-purpose tools. Every office worker and housewife has taken advantage of this fact for years, but it took the Germans to make a definitive study. Alarmed at the rate at which its clips were disappearing, a Munich manufacturing firm sent spies out to trace the fate of 100,000 of them...
After stumbling against solid Yale resistance for the first 20 minutes of play, Princeton tailback Ron Landeck ran for three second-period touchdowns to lead the Tigers to a 31-6 victory. It was Princeton's 17th straight win, its 13th in a row over Ivy opponents, and its fifth consecutive conquest of Yale...
...Berliner Ensemble may have jeered at him as a fool for returning, or perhaps acidly criticized him for bringing the police around to question their possible complicity. No one will ever be certain, for Christian Weisbrod was quite dead when they found his body in East Berlin's 13th century Marienkirche. He had swallowed pesticide...
...straight between the legs of Houston First Baseman Walt Bond. Never slowing down, Mays rounded first, streaked for second, and slid in safely amid a cloud of dust. Moments later, Willie McCovey slapped a single to right, and Mays scampered home with the run that gave the Giants their 13th straight victory, boosted their National League lead to 31 games. In the club house afterwards, Manager Franks smiled benignly. "Who knows?" he said. "Some day I may start thinking of myself as a genius...
...from Hussein. By this year all was ready, and the plot was scheduled for the end of July during the regime's 13th anniversary celebrations. It seemed thorough in every detail. Hussein Tawfic, a veteran terrorist who had successfully rubbed out one of King Farouk's finance ministers, was put in command of a select group assigned to blow up Nasser in his motorcade. If he failed, other brothers were ready to blast Nasser off his presidential train somewhere between Cairo and Alexandria, and still others were prepared to shoot him on the way to his home...