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...Aires' Postal Savings Building, Miguel Najdorf again sat facing stone-faced Sammy Reshevsky. Sipping coffee brewed under exquisite precautions against doping, Najdorf nonetheless seemed in the worst shape ever. Perspiring and twitching, wringing his shaky hands, frantically rumpling his hair, he leaped up after nearly every move to dash into the men's room, situated next to him as demanded by his strict terms. Once, while nearly 1,000 chess fans watched and chuckled, Najdorf soared from his chair as if it were a hot seat, tripped and sprawled on the floor. Arising, he seized the lapels...
Flying a Canadian-built F-86 Sabre jet, Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran whooshed to another pair of speed records over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. After clocking 590.273 m.p.h. around a 12-pylon, 500-kilometer course and 670 m.p.h. in a straight 15-kilometer dash, Jacqueline pronounced the Sabre a safer plane, and easier to fly, than the prop-driven fighters of World...
Topped or Tapped. When the first of the pooled Canberras arrived on schedule at Goose Bay on the afternoon of coronation day, both CBS and NBC were waiting with souped-up Mustang fighters to make the final dash to Boston. The CBS plane, off four minutes ahead of its NBC rival, landed at Boston's Logan Airport 24 minutes in the lead. But, while both Mustangs were still airborne, a Royal Canadian Air Force jet plane had hustled its films to Montreal and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. was ready to telecast...
...first dash for the rail at Pimlico's Preakness last week, Kentucky Derby Winner Dark Star shot into the lead. Dark Star had beaten Alfred Vanderbilt's Native Dancer in the Derby by following a simple script: get in front, out of trouble, and stay in front. But this time the Dancer, Jockey Guerin up, was not playing his part of the Derby script. Instead of getting banged early and boxed later, as he had in the Derby, Jockey Guerin kept the smooth-moving grey colt close on the pace, well out of trouble...
Peter Dow put on a tremendous finishing sprint Saturday afternoon at Triborough Stadium to take a surprise second in the IC4A 220 yard dash...