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...case had begun on April 15, 1920, when Fred Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli were shot down while carrying the payroll of a South Braintree shoe factory from the company offices to the plant. Their assailants grabbed the $15,000 payroll, leaped into a car which drew up alongside, and sped away...
...Detroit's selection as the official U.S. choice for the site of the 1968 Olympic Games. Confronted with eager competition from Los Angeles, Romney swiftly steered through the legislature two bills enabling Michigan to raise the funds and build the necessary facilities. Armed with the new legislation, he sped to New York to present Detroit's case before the U.S. Olympic Committee. The winner: Detroit (which must now compete with several cities in other countries...
When Sjoukje was six, her father gave her a pair of skates and, says he, she "sped away immediately." Not long afterward she broke a leg skating, but Daddy pressed on. At ten, Sjoukje was studying in London under a Swiss-born trainer named Arnold Gerschwiler, and two years later she placed 14th in her first major competition-the European championships. At 13, she gave up formal schooling in favor of skating: she was twelfth at the 1956 Olympics, second at the 1960 Olympics, won the first of four straight European championships that same year...
...Jonny Nilsson, 19. stubby-legged student engineer from Filipstad, Sweden: three new world records at the world speed skating championships in Karuizawa, Japan. Gliding happily through a blinding blizzard that coated him with snow and slowed down his rivals, the unheralded Nilsson sped 10,000 meters in 15 min. 33 sec., won the 5,000 meters in 7 min. 34.3 sec., and set yet another record by winning the all-events championship with the best score ever...
...Guineans themselves. On a second vain attempt to get Svetlana to Moscow, Russia's Ambassador to Guinea himself tried to pass her off as the aircraft's stewardess. Then a few days later, the Russian cultural attache and two aides snatched Svetlana from a Conakry restaurant and sped off toward the airport. That was too much. The Guineans tossed all three into jail for the night, reinstalled Svetlana in her school, and began to wonder where foreign aid stops and foreign interference begins...