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Asst. Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams sped to Kenya after meeting with Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, and Ambassador W. Averell Harriman flew to Iran in other U.S. peace moves...
...London's Mayfair, office workers stumbled around in inky, icy blackness. At the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, diplomats read their documents by candlelight. Scotland Yard sped emergency flashlight details out to direct traffic at major intersections. Throughout great areas of southern England and the Midlands the blackout spread. Sections of Birmingham sputtered and went out, as did Maidenhead, downtown Derby and scores of other places...
Faced with the threat of a major civil uprising, Northerners last week began to look for compromise. Nigeria's Chief Justice Adetokunbo Ademola sped off to Ibadan to try to hammer a coalition government under Akintola together. For Awolowo's cheated followers, coalition left much to be desired, but it would at least be better than nothing. "Any region that does not ally itself with the North will surely fade," said one realistic loser last week. "If we remain in the opposition for five more years, we shall be relegated to the burying grounds...
...Spirit flashed past, Head Timer Joe Petrali checked his timing lights, calculated that Breedlove had taken ex actly 6.613 sec. to negotiate the measured mile. That figured out to 544.382 m.p.h.-well above Arfons' old record. Since an official record requires two runs, Breedlove turned his car around, sped back past the timer at 566.394, for a two-way average of 555.-127 m.p.h. Breedlove had his record back...
...second quarter, Hugh Polk led Harvard's precision forward line in setting up high scorer Charlie Njoku. Njoku sped three grass-cutters by the Princeton goalie, but twice an alert fullback was there to save the score and once Blodget couldn't connect with the open goal...