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...thin and wasted face-and often at Juan Perón, who kept long vigils at her glass-topped casket. Sixteen persons were killed, crushed and trampled by the throngs; 3,900 were in hospitals with injuries; thousands of others got first aid. In the 20-block, four-abreast queue were infants in arms and a 102-year-old woman who cried, "I've never known real pain before." To feed the multitude, the army set up 24 field kitchens, gave away sandwiches, oranges, coffee. The street outside Evita's resting place was packed with 8,340 funeral...
...experts from 19 countries last week silently swooped out over the dusty yellow airfield of Madrid's Real Aéreo Club. The two-week International Soaring contest, the biggest postwar meet, was coming to a flying finish. Each day at noon ranks of brightly colored sailplanes, eight abreast, were towed to a 1,650-ft. altitude by Spanish Air Force training planes. There, their long tow cables released, the motorless pilots sought out the thermals-rising warm air currents-on which they might ride up to soar highest, farthest or fastest...
Last week Johan Enbom sat in the witness stand in a Stockholm courtroom, the first of seven Swedes to go on trial for espionage. They had, the government charged, given the Russians secrets of Sweden's vital northern defense line abreast of Finland. Required to stand trial, though he had pleaded guilty, Enbom freely told the whole story. He had been sure war was coming, he explained, and it was his duty to "smooth the Red armies' path to liberate Sweden from the dreaded Western occupation...
Boatner expected some trouble from the swaggering, defiant North Korean officers of Compound 66, but after he had taken representatives from the enclosure on a tour of the blood-spattered ruins of Compound 76, the officers marched out in orderly ranks, five abreast. As a reward for obedience and a mark of respect for their rank, Boatner ordered the machine-guns on the watchtowers turned skyward during the transfer. Only one North Korean officer stepped out of ranks; he identified himself as an antiCommunist...
...great oil boom has also churned up a parallel treasure hunt in the nation's securities markets. For investors, oil's lure is threefold: 1) as wealth in the ground, where its value is likely to keep abreast of inflation, 2) as the raw material of the new petrochemical industry, and 3) as the beneficiary of a "depletion allowance" which permits 27½% of income from producing wells to be plowed back before taxes are computed, thus giving oilmen a tax edge over most other industries. As a result, in two years the stocks of some...