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...Communists were exploiting their brand-new Sputnik to achieve their old Middle Eastern objectives. "People of the whole world are pointing to the satellite," crowed Nikita. "They are saying that the U.S. has been beaten...
...Braves 15 years ago and was scornfully unimpressed by Spahn's talents. Now the veteran pitcher has a great deal more to show his former manager. He still has his old speedball when he needs it, but he backs it up with a variety of curves and a brand-new screwball that he calls a sinker. More important, he is still improving the impressive control that made him the first of this season's 20-game winners and made him one of the six baseball pitchers to win 20 games eight times or more. The pitches he throws...
Marshal Sarit's bloodless coup so surprised Bangkok diplomats that most of them heard of it at breakfast the morning after. Shortly before midnight Marshal Sarit's brand-new U.S. tanks and weapons carriers had taken up positions controlling Bangkok's key traffic arteries. Efficient little Thai infantrymen, troops of Sarit's crack 1st Division, set up mortar and machine-gun emplacements, and over the radio came the first of a series of orders from Sarit and the new government...
...short stroll from the gutted hulk of Berlin's old Reichstag one blustery day last week, a young German girl stepped resolutely forward, smashed a bottle of German wine against a brand-new building set on the banks of the River Spree, proclaimed in a clear voice. "I christen you the Congress Hall in memory of Benjamin Franklin." Thus was opened Berlin's newest and most venturesome building, a joint project of the U.S., the West German government and the city of Berlin. Designed as a cultural center where plays, music, debates and symposiums will be held...
...rocky stretches ripped tires and shattered windshields. By the time the cars reached Brisbane, the first seven places were held by sturdy little Volkswagens. Well up in the running, though, was Mrs. Doris Isabel ("Geordie") Anderson, 46, a Brisbane housewife and mother of six, who was driving her own brand-new, cream and grey Mark VIII Jaguar-a $6,750 job complete with automatic transmission...