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Heads low and rumps high, 100 cyclists threaded their way through the narrow passage that police maintained for them. Paris' Avenue des Champs Elysées was so jammed that it looked like Liberation Day. The first postwar revival of the Tour de France was under way. The 26-day-long, 2,900-mile bike race-a kind of Bunion Derby on wheels-is France's most avidly followed sporting event...
...luxurious third-floor apartment of Havana's rococo presidential palace, bachelor Ramón Grau San Martin had finished his morning cup of sweet black coffee. On the stroke of 9 he walked down the private stairway to his office below. He was ready for a day-long procession of visitors...
...whom do the .districts rightfully belong? Zinder told of an unlettered but wily Turkish mayor of Erzurum, largest town in the region, who just before World War I tried to give a convincing answer to a British investigating committee. The old mayor was bored by a day-long statistical and ethnical analysis of the Turkish and Armenian cases. Brusquely he cut short the discussion and led the delegates to the local Armenian cemetery. Then he showed them a much larger Turkish cemetery. "Figures like these," he said...
...rnberg trial, the world already knew. Just how great it was the world saw more clearly last week when Sir Hartley William Shawcross, Britain's Attorney General, opened the case for the British prosecution. Sir Hartley is one of Britain's most brilliant jurists. His day-long speech was an impressive, tightly logical, exhaustive dissertation. Yet rarely did it match Jackson's bold attempt to find law in ultimate source-the principles of men- rather than in statute, treaty, precedent...
Most of us have by now become accustomed to the day-long bleating from across the Charles to "report to the duty office," "tie your shoe-laces," etc. The boys who sleep in McCulloch, however, have decided that it's going too far when they send an expeditionary force across that same Charles at 0620 armed with drums and bugles. "Mahsh" Dranetz and the Boz (he's our law student from South Bend, you will recall) are all for setting up machine guns at the crossing; bleary-eyed Bienvenu is for something more subtle; such as blowing up the bridge...