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Conference speakers include L. R. Boulware, vice-president of the General Electric Company, and William B. Given, Jr., president of the American Brake Shoe Company...
...young toughs between eight and 16 who had no connection with the union, stormed up the station's sandy slope to capture a train bringing Communists from the Soviet sector to occupy stations down the line. A striker leaped into the engineer's cab, slammed on the brake. As the train bumped to a halt, Communist cops began shooting into the crowd. Four times the station changed hands; twelve were seriously wounded. Finally German police from the British sector took over. The Communist cops meekly gave up their arms and were marched off under escort...
...down Mt. Van Hoeven-berg's famed bobsled run. He only has to lay down $1.50 and sign a waiver relieving the State of New York* of all responsibility. Since nobody on the tourist runs is out for the record and the rear crewman rides hard on the brake, the passenger is safe enough. In competition it's different...
...Bill Casey used his brake for the first time, and the sled ground to a stop, about a city block past the finish line. They made the descent three times more before they pinned down the 1949 four-man bobsled championship. Average time: 1:13.32. Average speed: 46.8 m.p.h. Afterwards, Benham's No. 3 man, Jim Atkinson, felt his face and grinned: "Boy, was that wind cold." Somebody remarked: "It's all over but the drinking." Said Driver Benham: "I haven't had a drink in a long time . . . you can't drink and drive...
Jones saw some action last season before he brake his arm, and won by decision in the Wesleyan meet this year. Conners wrestled as a freshman last winter; Thompson, who decisioned his opponent in the MI'T match when he filled in at 175, would have to lose ten pounds to take the 165-pound assignment...