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...representatives keep talking about their peace-loving nature . . . but 'what about deeds?' Well, have there not been a few deeds, at least during the last month? . . . Where are yours?" Let us, proposed Vishinsky, "dig the tunnel of friendship from both sides [in order] to meet sooner and halfway...
...Olympic boxer, Ellsworth ("Spider") Webb, won the N.C.A.A. title from Wisconsin, 25-19 ¶ At Bowie, Md., in a Kentucky Derby preview-with Alfred Vanderbilt's Native Dancer absent-Eugene Constantin Jr's Royal Bay Gem charged up from dead last at the halfway mark to win the $34,050 Chesapeake Stakes by two lengths over ten other Derby eligibles ¶ln Palo Alto, Calif., U.S.C Olympian Sim Iness bettered his own N. C. A. A. discus mark by a full 2 ft. New record: 185 ft. 5¼ in. World record...
...From halfway around the world, TIME-Reader George Willstead Rodrigues recently wrote us about his job as an assistant harbor master of the Calcutta Port Trust. The Calcutta harbor is one of the world's most difficult to navigate. And one of the toughest jobs there is that of the assistant harbor master, who pilots ships up the treacherous Hooghly, one of the several mouths of India's sacred Ganges...
...Hurt!" At 2 a.m., two Chinese companies began attacking U.N. positions on the muddy, jagged slopes of "Little Gibraltar." Mortars and artillery pounded U.N. lines. At 4 a.m., Stanley and twelve other men from the 9th Infantry Regiment were sent crawling up Little Gibraltar, looking for wounded. Halfway up, Stanley and a South Korean soldier ran into two Chinese coming towards them with their hands up, as if to surrender. Suddenly, from a closed fist, one of the Chinese flipped a hand grenade. The grenade killed the Korean. Stanley hoisted his 20-lb. rifle to his shoulder and killed both...
Just before the halfway mark, 28-year-old Paul Goldsmith, a gas-station owner from Royal Oak, Mich., riding in second place, pulled up at the pits to refuel. In just 22 seconds he took on four gallons of gas, two quarts of oil, a cup of black coffee, and sped on again. On his medium-sized (350 lbs.) new American model a Harley-Davidson KRTT, which had such standard equipment as four-gear transmission and some unique features of its own (a foot shift, a hand clutch), Goldsmith finally lapped most of the field...