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...only Crimson win, in what Coach Bob Pickett called "the team's toughest meet of the year," was in the unlimited class, where Pete Morrison took his second straight pin of the year, dropping Crimson in 7:11 with a half-nelson...
...results of the meet were: in the 130 lb, class, Skeels, by decision (4-2); in the 137 lb. class, Striker, by decision (4-1); in the 147 lb. class, Noble, by decision (9-4); in the 157 lb. class, Eastling, by a pin (time 1:10); in the 167 lb. class, Sullivan, by a pin (time 5:20); in the 177 lb. class, Foster, by default; and in the heavyweight division, Leary, by a pin (time...
Pierre Poujade, the election's only real victor, has already predicted that the moribund new assembly "will not last." Even if he is right, no inquest into its demise will be able to pin the ultimate blame on him. The feud between Mendes-France and Edgar Faure split the Radical Socialist Party, rent the Assembly's alliance of moderates, and paved the way for the extremists' victory. As a result, any constructive legislation by the new assembly will require that the center groups, already almost hopelessly divided among themselves, vote nearly unanimously together. The French battle has gone...
...Research and Development Command is at Baltimore, but the technical nerve center is Wright Air Development Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton. It dates, under various names, back to World War I, and has grown into a massive tangle of intricate equipment. It tests everything from pin-head-size transistors to heavy bombers, loading them with weights or twisting their wings with tension devices. Turbojet engines, ramjets and rocket motors bellow on test stands like prehistoric monsters...
...Hand me my dulcy-more," 62-year-old "Aunt" Ellen Fields will chirp to a visitor at her house near Viper. "This thang hain't much good any more. Ah put in a new fret-just took a pin and bit the head offen h'it-but h'it still don't play too good." When she plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down...