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...McKinley was not yet ready for Australia's canny, flame-haired Rod ("The Rocket") Laver, 22, seeded second. Laver was in danger of becoming Wimbledon's perennial bridesmaid: two years ago he lost the final to Peru's flashy Alex Olmedo, now a pro; last year Fraser beat him. This time Laver made it, and in only 55 minutes. With the score tied 3-3 in the first set, Laver broke through McKinley's service, won nine out of the next ten games for a commanding 6-3, 6-1 lead. He let up briefly...
...time to run again, she reportedly wept for three nights. But she gamely took off her apron and returned to politics, winning a second lackluster term by 3,000 votes. By 1940, when the aging Farmer Jim instructed her to try one more time, the Ferguson flame had guttered out. Ma was beaten by, of all people, W. Lee ("Pass the biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, a flour miller and hillbilly singer. After Jim Ferguson died in 1944, Ma retired to the house he had built for her, overlooking the State Capitol in Austin. And there, last week, she died...
...East German uprising. At dusk, thousands gathered to hear Brandt cry: "We will survive because we have good friends." All over the city, West Berliners put candles in their windows and lit huge bonfires plainly visible in the Communist sector as the signal of their determination to keep the flame of freedom alive...
Died. Louis de Wohl, 58, prolific, German-born biographer of the saints (among them: St. Augustine in The Restless Flame, St. Francis Xavier in Set All Afire) and part-time London astrologer hired in 1940 by the British War Office to try to duplicate the advice Hitler was receiving from his stargazers; of heart disease; in Lucerne. Asked about his secret wartime weapon. Prime Minister Churchill once explained, "Why should Hitler have a monopoly on astrologers...
...represent black Africans. Well, I assure you my heart is as black as any man's"). Neither side was able to form a government, and last week the British tried a second round of elections. But the months of campaigning had fanned the smoldering racial hostility into flame. On election day, Arab sword flashed against African panga, leaving a score killed and more than 200 wounded...