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...held it to 55, when he made a fast stop for oil. Then Ruttman popped back in front. On lap No. 83, Vukovich took the lead again and Ruttman's car, a lap later, lost time fighting a fire under the hood during a refueling stop. At the halfway mark (100 laps) Vukovich was still in the lead. Ruttman was then third-and gaining...
...sobered by his loss of face, is forced to accompany the General and Rita to the meeting with Bob Barkeley; but halfway there Red soldiers stop the car, shoot two aides and beat up the driver, taking Wang prisoner. "I suppose you will shoot me like the General," Says Rita. "So sorry," hisses Hung. "I have other plans for you." They depart for the waterfront...
More than two-thirds of the delegates to the Republican National Convention on July 7 have now been chosen. The Democrats, who will meet two weeks later, have barely passed the halfway mark. The box score at week's end of delegates who are openly committed or who have formally announced their preferences...
Fateful Coalition. From a command concerned chiefly with fighting a war and negotiating an elusive peace, 57-year-old General Ridgway will move halfway around the globe to a job concerned chiefly with building military strength to prevent a war. From Eisenhower he inherits an allied military command stretching from Iceland to the Bosporus and encompassing one of history's most fateful coalitions of land, sea & air forces...
Winthrop, as in the past, drew heavily on the athletic stereotype. One man said, "It's the home of mesomorphs and that settles it for me." Another stated its desirability is its location--"halfway between the Yard and the Fieldhouse...