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...overwhelming lead in the fifth European Games (Europe's off-year Olympics) despite their wrong-way marathoner, Ivan Filin. who dogmatically swung left as he entered the stadium for the last lap, and lost out to Finland's Veikko Karvonen, who had no qualms about right-hand turns. In what may be his last appearance on the track, Britain's Roger Bannister loafed to an easy victory in the 1,500-meter run. His time...
...working on the case are not to blame for the carelessly drawn indictment. The case was originally presented to a grand jury in 1952. A key man in its preparation: Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, then a special Assistant to the Attorney General, now Senator Joe McCarthy's right-hand...
...scene they are acting is thought to be a Biblical one: the meeting either of King Ahasuerus and Esther or of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Charles' illustrious forebear, the Emperor Charlemagne, is in the small panel at the upper right, labeled "Karlus." In the large lower right-hand panel, the artist has illustrated a popular medieval legend. He shows Emperor Octavian asking the Tiburtine sibyl whether any king as great as he would ever live; the sibyl replies by showing the Emperor a vision of the Christ Child...
...would soon mend their differences. "If this had happened in the army," said one, "the Old Man would merely have confined him to barracks for two weeks . . ." Sworn in as Economic Minister less than 24 hours after the resignation was none other than Spyros Markezinis' own right-hand man and close friend, Thanos Kapsalis...
...Attlee's view, Berlin satisfied those further efforts. At a meeting of the parliamentary Labor Party last week, he proposed a resolution declaring Labor's support−at last−of German inclusion in Western defense. Up jumped young (37) Harold Wilson, Nye Bevan's right-hand man. The West had been no more conciliatory than Molotov at Berlin, he argued. He proposed an amendment postponing the questions of German rearmament at least until after the Geneva meeting in April...