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Hennessey, who will play today, grabbed the bouncing kick-off on his own 15 yard line and sped untouched down the center of the gridiron for the Crusader's only tally...
...fresh tunnel had just been completed. Eight men and women scurried through the passage to a West Berlin beer parlor at the other end, but one young man was sprayed at point-blank range by machine pistols. Three miles to the northwest, the Allies learned of the shooting and sped their ambulance to the border. But East German guards refused to raise the barrier, and the British army drivers did not force the issue; after an hour they turned back. A Red Cross ambulance also was refused permission to cross the border. One refugee reported that the wounded man died...
...first command-"Roll minus 9.33 degrees"-sped across space from the great dish antenna at Goldstone. After an agonizing wait for radio travel time, Mariner II acknowledged the command and repeated it accurately. For more than an hour the long-distance conversation continued, carried on in a language of carefully spaced pulses of radio energy. At Goldstone these pulses appeared as mere dots on a slowly moving tape. But each combi nation of dots represented numbers in the two-digit binary code that computers understand best. Finally, Goldstone sent "Signal RTC-6," which told Mariner II to execute...
...presidential car sped along the road from Paris to Villacoublay Airport. Hurrying to catch the plane home to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises were President Charles de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne; up front with the chauffeur was the De Gaulles' son-in-law, Alain de Boissieu. Close behind followed a security car and two motorcycle policemen. As the small motorcade slowed down for a traffic circle in suburban Clamart, Old Soldier de Gaulle once again faced the guns of an enemy...
SENSATIONNEL, JIM BEATTY ! read a six-column headline in Paris' L'Aurore, after Beatty sped 3,000 meters over a muddy track in 7 min. 54.2 sec.-just 5 sec. off Michel Jazy's world record. FANTASTIC ! echoed Britain's Daily Herald, when Beatty ran the mile in 3 min. 56.5 sec. over a notoriously slow track at White City stadium-pulling four other competitors over the finish in less than four minutes. Moving up to a longer distance at Turku, Finland, Beatty then ran the 5,000 meters in 13 min. 45 sec., beating...