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...fourth time in six years (never from the same man), one of his handlers was in Basilio's corner screaming that Carmen's seconds were smearing their boy with doped Vaseline. It took a couple of cops to shut him up. Then an Athletic Commission inspector closed in on Robby and took a suspicious swig from the Thermos bottle that contained the challenger's between-rounds refreshment. (It was only orange juice...
...Connecticut, John Alsop carries some impressive credentials. He belongs to an old Avon (Conn.) family, went to exclusive Groton and Yale ('37), served overseas in the cloak-and-dagger OSS in World War II, steadily climbed the promotion ladder in Hartford's Mutual Insurance Co. from field inspector ('46) to president ('53), twice won election to the Connecticut General Assembly (1947 and 1949), and won friends among Eisenhower Republicans as a Connecticut Yankee for Ike in both...
Overlap. In Tokyo, everyone was ruled blameless after a three-car collision involving 1) an expectant mother being rushed to the hospital in a taxi, 2) an off-duty traffic inspector chasing the cab, 3) the lady's obstetrician...
...decided to build a coastal road to link their village with other communities. A bulldozer was at work slicing away the sand dunes when one day its driver noticed that he was grazing what seemed to be scorched pavement with jewel-encrusted slabs. Archaeologist Moshe Prausnitz, British-trained senior inspector of Israel's Department of Antiquities, arrived on the scene, found a loose layer of burned mosaic floor, and under that two layers of superb mosaic that seemed to be virtually undamaged...
...cops, the mob's blood rage began subsiding. Larrazabal's emergency junta helped satisfy the rioters by abolishing the Security Police, arresting 196 of its chief agents. The junta promised to try them on charges of torturing or ill-treating prisoners, with special attention to a police inspector-general accused of presiding over electric shock and beating sessions in a formal dinner jacket. Cost of freedom in the week's casualties: 300 killed, more than 1,000 wounded...