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...precious little dusting-off. He finished second in the Grand Touring (closed car) class, twelfth overall. "I was ahead of Moss going into the first turn," said Fireball sadly. "But I came in too hot and went wide. Moss passed me, and from then on it was adiós. I never saw him again." Stocker Weatherly also had a run-in with Moss: a broken distributor rotor forced him to slow down, and Moss impatiently nudged him off the course. "I don't think he meant anything by it," said Weatherly. "I just...
...grant was left in trust by Frank G. Thomson '97, to be released to the University following the death of his with, Mrs. Adi Caroline Thomson. Mrs. Thomson died last week...
...week in industrial Manchester. A 6-ft., nobly bearded Sikh named Gyani Sundar Singh Sagar. 43, having passed the examination to become a conductor on Manchester's municipal buses, was eager to don the navy-blue uniform of his chosen calling. But since the Sikh Holy Book, the Adi Granth. says that "a Sikh is never to wear a cap or shave his beard or head,'' Singh Sagar asked permission to keep his shoulder-length hair under a smoothly coiled turban rather than top it incongruously with the customary conductor...
...blow from Uncle Sam. On the axhead: a picture of Castillo Armas. Another joshed his style of rule by decree, showing him whipping up two mules labeled "Congress" and "Courts." The motto of his revolution, Dios, Patria y Libertad, was devastatingly changed on the float to Adiós, Patria y Libertad...
Just why Brazilians had temporarily deserted their lively sambas for a sad-sweet tango about the pampas seemed explainable only by Brazilian saudades-a special Latin kind of homesickness for things and places they have never seen. When last heard from, Adiós, Pampa Mia was heading north. U.S. citizens could get set for a tango in the jukeboxes...