Word: grandstanders
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...collapsing grandstand had interrupted the Wisconsin-Purdue game at half-time (TIME, March 10), so a playoff of the second half was ordered. Wisconsin, which could clinch the title by winning, had to begin last week's half-game with its star, Walt Lautenbach, already four-fifths of the way out on fouls...
...fired his gun. The seven Russians stared blankly as the French girls scooted down the track. Then the Russians caught on. Their faces set in stern concentration, their legs pumping like pistons in a Magnitogorsk factory, they charged down the track, past the limp bunting on the grandstand, past the mudstreaked posters advertising the virtues of L'Humanite and the Communist Party...
...great grandstand rose at Mexico City's Balbuena Airport. Along the road to town, workers paved the walks and turfed the unkempt fields. In the city, little groups of men labored past midnight, filling in every last crack in the pavement that Harry Truman would ride over. Every boulevard shrub had been freshly manured to make the capital a little greener for its first visit, this week, from a U.S. President...
Queen Elizabeth, returning home in a car after a dinner party, had to be escorted home by a corps of bobbies with torches (British for flashlights). At Wembley Stadium, 4,000 hockey fans, marooned for the night, snuggled against one another in the grandstand. At New Cross race track the greyhounds lost sight of the rabbit. In the Channel the S.S. America groped and bellowed mournfully, unable to make port. Other ships ran aground. In Southampton, Ivor Thomas and his fiancée Elithia Zinck-just in from Bombay-drove off a dock and were drowned...
JOHN FIORENTINO, freshman right end and brother of Holy Cross's Orange Bowl end, Ed. is a man whose steady play gains few cheers from the grandstand. Last week against Brown he showed he could catch passes when he snagged a flintier-tip aerial from Chip Gannon to open the scoring...