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...night Turkish police watch the massive, drafty Soviet embassy in Ankara and the consulate general in Istanbul. Russian cars are trailed relentlessly. (Sometimes four or five Russians will dash out, separate, pile into different automobiles before the one or two Turkish police can figure out which car to follow.) Counter-espionage is big business here. From the time any foreigner, from private citizen to ambassador, enters the country, his movements are known. A vast army of full-time and part-time informers keeps Turkish intelligence posted on who goes where, who meets whom, who said what. Turkey's jittery...
...Elephants opened their scoring spree early in the first perod when tackle John Cowles pounced on a Leverett fumble in its own end zone. After this first touchdown the Bunnies kept the Eliot T in check until an Eliot interception laid the way for Rick Hudner's 20-yard dash for the second score...
Unable to reach her by phone or to get an answer to a telegram, Davis, Pierre Lelandais '52, illiam EW.W. Gowen '52, and Charles J.N. Bailey '50 allegedly persuaded Dribben to accompany them in a dash across the country in Lelandais car to see Mis Leigh in person...
With the cream of the crop absent, a bumper Futurity field of 14 colts and three fillies burst out of the starting gate and began the dash down the Belmont straightaway. Guillotine, a speed horse from Greentree Stable, son of 1939 Futurity Winner Bimelech, shot into the lead. The experts waited to see him chopped down at any moment. But with Jockey Ted Atkinson swinging his whip, Guillotine was still in front after covering six furlongs in i :og, and lasted the additional sixteenth of a mile to win by almost a length from Calumet Farm's highly regarded...
...reporters hit the foyer at a dead run, tore through the lobby, and smashed the nose of a stuffed deer on their dash to pressroom telephones. "Bulletin! Bulletin!" shouted Tony Vaccaro of the Associated Press. Said Smith to the U.P.: "Flash!" Bob Nixon yelped at the International News Service switchboard: "Flash, goddammit, gimme the desk!" At 11:05, bells on U.P. and I.N.S. tickers in hundreds of newspapers signaled the big news flash. Three minutes later, the A.P.'s bulletin was on the wire...