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...closer cooperation with the Communists, while St. Laurent and Pearson bluntly opposed it. "Don't be fooled," the Canadians warned the Indians. "There's really no new look there. It's the same old look, and just as dangerous. Don't trust them an inch." At the conference sessions held in the Cabinet room at No. 10 Downing Street, Commonwealth relations with the Communist bloc were the main topic. Again the Asians argued for a softer policy, while the Canadians firmly opposed any letdown. At times the vigor of St. Laurent's and Pearson...
...high-jumper's sound barrier was 7 ft. To jumpers, until last week, it was the equivalent of the 4-min. mile, the 9-sec. 100-yd. dash (not yet achieved), the 15-ft. pole vault. Like those, it was also a psychological barrier, hovering only half an inch above Walt Davis' 1953 world record. The high jump brought the Olympic trials' greatest moment. Handsome, nervous Ernie Shelton of U.S.C. fouled out at 6 ft. 9½ in. and went off in tears muttering to himself: "I'm not an athlete...
Lieut. Commander Lay M. Fox, 31, an internist from Baltimore, got the same story of chills and fever, noted a pustule on the right ankle. In Sakacs' right groin he found two groups of enlarged lymph nodes, each about one inch by two inches. Like 99.9% of U.S. physicians, young Dr. Fox had never seen a case like it. But on the strength of the fleabite and the buboes, he made a quick diagnosis: bubonic plague...
...Walter Davis); three have tossed the shot over 60 ft. (far past the Olympic mark of 57 ft. 1½ in. and the equivalent in the muscle-set of the four-minute mile). A quartet of pole vaulters has cleared 15 ft.-three-quarters of an inch above the games'mark. In addition, American sprinters and middle-distance men are thick-and fast-as gazelles...
...height of a letter in a certain size of print is ¼ inch. If the following are the heights [in inches] of this letter in other sizes of print, which one is the next larger size...