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...Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this enlightened age." General Ulysses S. Grant, who on a ceremonial visit was obliged to walk halfway across, said more soberly that it was "a very long bridge...
While Premier Guy Mollet hesitated between proclaiming a cease-fire outright as a starter and continuing secret efforts to talk the rebels into a cease-fire agreement, terror tightened its grip on Algeria. Much of the terror was to influence the vote. Halfway through an afternoon of football, bombs exploded simultaneously in two packed stadiums on opposite sides of Algiers, killing twelve and wounding 60. A father bent in horror over the headless body of his 20-year-old daughter. A Moslem candy vendor stared at the mangled form of his helper, took off running with his case of sweets...
...City Council yesterday averted a possible labor crisis by inducing City Manager John J. Curry '19 to meet halfway with demands for a salary increase by the 1800 City of Cambridge employees, over 100 of whom flocked to the Council Chamber for the third consecutive week...
However, the crowd of 2000, predominately Crimson fans for the first time in Boston history, wondered after the second period whether the varsity had tired out. Halfway through the last stanza, Bob McVey answered that question with his second goal of the game, taking a pass from John Copeland...
...Cleary scored five points in pacing the Crimson sextet to an 11-3 victory over A.I.C. Saturday night at Watson Rink. The losers, with only five spares, were hopelessly outmanned and showed signs of fatigue halfway through the first period...