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...rather plain Venus in a gown, bending to teach her little boy how to nock an arrow. The playfulness of the piece in no way modifies its classic harmony...
...time auto racing after a long layoff. It seemed only natural that Fangio was picked to drive for the German team. Gonzalez, as usual, was on hand, hoping to beat Fangio. But after eleven laps Gonzalez pulled off the track, his Ferrari in flames. Fangio, in his Mercedes Silver Arrow, rolled home the winner...
...front. This week, at Niirburgring. Germany, Fangio faced much the same problem. On the tight, twisting course where he and his competitors would have to shift gears some 10,000 times as they swung through 3.828 curves (174 per lap), the straightaways were too short for the Silver Arrow to show its full power. And most important of all, Gonzalez was a much improved driver. "He still fights his car too much," said Fangio, "'but he's one of the best...
...laps at Nürburgring, Gonzalez hung on grimly; then he gave up. Fangio and the Silver Arrow were too good. Averaging nearly 83 m.p.h. on the tricky course, Fangio finished first in 3:45:45.8. In second place, in Gonzalez Ferrari: England's Mike Hawthorn. Said Gonzalez with eloquent Latin dejection: "The Mercedes went by me like it was jet-propelled. Poof, poof, poof...
...Ennis and stabbed her sleeping daughter. When the police arrived, the Mau Mau had thrust a knife into his own chest, and was desperately trying to electrocute himself at the household fuse box. ¶In Wakamba territory, southeast of Nairobi, a gang of screaming tribesmen, shooting pistols and poisoned arrows, attacked a veterinary inspector at Machakos. "We want your head!"they screamed, but Dick McCausland, with an arrow in his arm, valiantly fought them off and retained his head. The Wakamba, 600,000 strong, supply one-third of the rank & file, perhaps half the NCOs in both the Kenya police...