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This week he hustled back to stump in Ohio industrial cities (among them: Dayton, Toledo, Akron, Cleveland). Senator Taft, hurriedly canceling other plans, sped out to Ohio. The Senator had his gloves off. "Mr. Stassen," he cried, "could have been elected Senator two years ago and been in Washington to help us Republicans do our job. It would have been easy. He chose instead to spend two years running for the presidency." From now on, the going would be rough...
...They sped over The Hill, Augusta's exclusive residential section, to the swank Augusta National Golf Club, built in the early '30s under Bobby Jones's personal direction...
...newest candidate for "world's fastest human" was just, beginning to warm up last week. Unlike the late Charlie Paddock, who was chunky, 23-year-old Mel Patton is tall (6 ft.) and frail (147 lbs.). In Los Angeles' huge Coliseum, against a brisk breeze, Patton sped the 100 yards in 9.7 (three-tenths of a second off the world's record which he shares with seven others...
...government man with the small box slung over his shoulder paced slowly to and fro, holding his rodlike detector close to the ground and listening to the sounds in his earphones: rhythmic clicks, five to 50 a minute, depending on the minerals under foot. As he walked, the clicking sped up, whirred into a roar. The man stopped, noted down the location. He had detected a deposit of the world's most coveted mineral: uranium ore, chief source of atomic energy...
...Roses. In Naples, the same week, Father Lombardi landed at the Capodichino airport-just as a huge truck sped into the city, bearing, under a gilded, pillared canopy, the picture of the Madonna di Pompeii. A salvo of 21 guns sounded in greeting, showers of flower petals filled the air and hundreds of thousands of candles were...