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...rioters began to pull trolley poles from the wires, the police trotted out their trusty tear gas guns. They fired the gas right into the face of the crowd, but to no avail except for the fainting of one woman...
This year, there must have been a hitch--someone forgot to pull the switch...
...Monde printed excerpts from a report supposedly written by U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William M. Fechteler, which asserted that 1) the Soviets could overcome Western Europe in three days and the West would be forced to pull out, 2) war with the Soviets is inevitable before...
...only four-tenths off the world record. ¶The New York A.C.'s Hurdler Charley Moore, a former Cornell runner and almost surefire Olympic winner, who set an American 400-meter hurdle record of 50.9. ¶b Polevaulters Bob Richards (handicapped by a muscle pull) and Don Laz, two top-notch 15-footers, who tied for first with a respectable 14 ft. 8 in. ¶Shotputter Jim Fuchs, world recordholder, who won with a toss...
...Even the air at the icy regions of 40,000 ft. does not help the engineer with his problem," says Rice. "At the speeds contemplated for the future, aluminum will relax and lose much of its strength. Canopies of today's materials will soften like putty and pull from their foundations. Radar equipment may give the wrong message . . . And the pilot would simmer like beef stew without refrigeration...