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While investigators began checking up on known sex offenders in the Starved Rock area, others brought heavy tanks of liquid petroleum gas into the canyon and slowly began burning away the top layer of snow. A piece of tin foil-perhaps from the fresh roll of film in the camera-turned up; the melting snow ran off to reveal blood stains. A policeman with a broom lightly swept snow from the spot in an attempt to unearth footprints. He found none. Police squads began checking reports about an auto that had been seen at the head of the trail...
...Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, 50, there seems to be one thing wrong with little (pop. 4,900,000) Ghana: it makes him feel hemmed in. Months ago he began railing at the new states of West Africa to join him in a Union of African States to foil a "colonialist plot" that aimed at "Balkanizing" the continent. His neighbors, fearing that Nkrumah had in mind a little colonizing of his own, brushed aside the scheme. Undaunted, Nkrumah has even written his Pan-African hopes into a new constitution that would give him power to dissolve Parliament and veto its acts...
...technique used to overcome photographic difficulties," and that "sandpaper can be shaved." Standard declared that "the presence of the gems in Blue Bonnet is an established fact." Alcoa denied all wrongdoing. Irving Miller, supervisor of the Alcoa account for Ketchurn, MacLeod, explained further that the torn, crumpled, "ordinary foil" may even have been Alcoa's regular foil...
...foil, captain Dave Johnson scored three wins to lead the Crimson to a 5-4 victory. But the sabre team was swamped by the Lions, 8 to 1, to provide the home team with its one-point victory margin...
Pacing the Crimson roster, Jim Roberts, the New England Intercollegiate champion, downed three opponents to remain undefeated in epee. Almost overtaking the Harvard squad, the Engineers slashed their way to 6-3 and 5-4 wins in saber and foil, respectively...