Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...organize his third plea. Last week, 15 years after the first arrest, New Jersey's Governor Alfred E. Driscoll signed a full pardon, and another would probably be available soon for Betty Lester, since enfeebled by a stroke. Sixty-four-year-old Cliff Shephard, tearfully pleased with the final triumph of justice, laid aside his broom and towel, thanked the State for excusing the crimes he had never committed...
...landing lights. Forty minutes later, still waiting, he called for the rescue teams. Toward dawn, searchers in boats and aircraft found six survivors, eight bodies, and the plane itself. It had crashed in twelve feet of water, two miles off the island, obviously on its final approach to the runway...
...nights later the sandstorm still raged, and a second DC-4 was lost Like the first plane, it was also on the final approach to the airstrip. It plunged into the sea within a mile of the first. The passengers who got out clung to the tail, and then, as the plane sank, to its broken aerial wire. Total loss in the two crashes: 85 lives...
Over the last quarter-mile, without even seeming to raise its beat, smooth-stroking Washington pulled away easily from the field, won by 2% lengths. Seconds later, a cluster of shells swept across the finish line. While regatta officials reserved final decision, the judges crossed their fingers and called it an all-West finish: second, California, third, Stanford, whose crew is not officially recognized by its own university...
Easygoing Lloyd Mangrum, who never lets his golf interfere with his good humor, kept right on smiling all through the go-hole Palm Beach Round Robin.* On the final hole, Mangrum had every reason to grin. He saved himself putting troubles by laying his approach shot within nudging distance of the hole, wound up with a winning 16-under-par for the tournament and $3,000. Tired little Ben Hogan, who had squeezed Winner Mangrum out of the U.S. Open playoff the week before, just went through the motions, finished eleventh in a field...