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...Nothing, Nothing. Discharged from the army late in 1945, Krim went home to the Kabylia and plunged into the nationalist movement. The French claim he became a bandit after killing a man who won the garde champètre job that he coveted. Krim denies the story, says he was wanted by the police for nationalist agitation, and fled to the hills to escape a two-year jail sentence for "an attack on French sovereignty." From then on Krim and his colleagues started preparing military rebellion...
...playing field. The Afro-Asian section collapsed early, in angry disarray. Nationalist China withdrew rather than play Indonesia, which had defeated Red China. Turkey pulled out, claiming it should have been classed as European, not Afro-Asian. Neither Egypt nor Sudan would play Israel, which finally became the section champ by political default, without playing a single game...
...fans were satisfied, Archie was disappointed. A knockout would have given the old battler a lifetime total of 127 K.O.s, would have made him boxing's undisputed K.O. champ. It is a title he deserves. Young Stribling, a heavyweight who also claimed 126 knockouts, swelled his total by touring tank towns in the '20a and flattening the local champions. Archie has taken on all comers at all weights, from Europe to Australia...
...amused to see your photograph of the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and myself in such a striking pose. It is apparent that he is the champ. The Foreign Relations Committee heard me in a brief open session which was followed by a closed meeting that extended my time before the committee to a total of three hours. Six Senators listened attentively to my presentation, and all of them asked very good-I would say, penetrating-questions. I thought that my trip from SHAPE, Paris to support the vital Mutual Security Act served a useful purpose. The attitude...
...From Oklahoma to New York, an eight-man team of Soviet wrestlers found only one American who could lick his weight in Russians. In the four-match tour, University of Iowa Alumnus Terry McCann, 23, U.S. 125½ lb. champ, was the only U.S. wrestler to win any bouts. He won three, drew...