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...years as a Communist guerrilla. Of the remaining eight, one was a convicted guerrilla. The other seven were top men in the bloody Puerto Cabello and Carúpano military revolts last year. While this was going on, the F.A.L.N., whose members may number less than 400, burned a Du Pont warehouse and a clothing store, blasted its sixth Creole Petroleum Corp. pipe line in nine months, and murdered still another Caracas policeman-their forty-ninth of the year...
...GLASSBLOWERS, Du Maurier...
...Speedy Scot: the 38th Hambletonian for three-year-old trotters in a world's record combined time of 5:54 for three heats around the mile track; in simmery, 90° sunshine at the Du Quoin, Ill., State Fair Grounds. Despite his speed, the colt lost the first race by a head to Florlis, who set a one-heat record...
Died. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 95, Negro philosopher and editor, a founder of the N.A.A.C.P., since 1961 a card-carrying Communist; in Accra, Ghana. Du Bois won a Harvard Ph.D. in 1895, took an early lead in Negro agitation as head of the militant Niagara Movement; when it merged with the N.A.A.C.P. in 1909, he became the association's only Negro officer and editor of its monthly magazine The Crisis, got in trouble with his fiery editorials advocating separate "self-dependence" for his race, left for good in 1948 in a dispute over-of all things-his endorsement...
...that end, she appointed two committees: one, headed by Antiques Expert Henry F. du Pont, to assemble period furniture, and the other, headed by New York Painter and Lecturer James W. Fosburgh, to seek out paintings and sculptures...