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...points to Baylor's one. There just wasn't anything that Baylor could do about 6 ft. 7 in. Alex ("The Nose") Groza, Kentucky's star center, whose head seems to threaten the mezzanine. He sucked in rebounds like a vacuum cleaner. He was swift afoot and deadeyed. Final score: Kentucky 58, Baylor...
...soon as he learned that a plot was afoot, Betancourt sent Nicaraguan President Victor Roman y Reyes an urgent telegram: Venezuelan exiles at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, were loading two former U.S. Navy bombers, manned by U.S. crews, for a bombing run over Caracas. He named names, listed airplane numbers...
...Moritz who thought the 1948 Olympic games would be the last. It was not simply the old sneering gossip about which amateur got paid how much, or the sometimes unequal struggle between sportsmanship and competitive spirit, intensified by national rivalries. There was a deeper and grimmer game afoot: for some "iron cur tain" countries, like Rumania and Yugoslavia, competition had become almost a matter of life & death; some athletes were nervous about going back home if they didn't perform up to snuff. Soviet Russia sent no competitors, only a vigilante squad of ten observers...
Nobody had the answer: already stevedores' wages were better than those paid in other ports of Colombia. As for the cargo bottleneck, it will be eased only when the single track railway and the unpaved highway leading into the interior are improved, and so far no plans are afoot for the work...
...while the California scientists played like small boys with their dangerous new toy. The neutron beam smashed almost any atom. It cooked up any number of radioactive isotopes. But there was more than fun & games afoot. The monstrous cyclotron was on the trail of something important...