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...Sebastian someone dutifully painted a hammer and sickle upon a wall -and that was just about all there was to that. In Madrid some 100 workers from two factories stayed home until 10:30 in the morning, found themselves locked out when they finally showed up for work. In restless Barcelona, where the Reds had hoped to put on their most impressive performance, even men on sick list went off to their factories. For one thing, at a time when the country's ailing industries were looking for every possible excuse to get rid of workers (it is against...
Hidden Persuader. In Denver, on trial for possession of burglary tools (a sledge hammer concealed under his jacket), James H. Fielder won acquittal when he explained: "I carry this for protection in case somebody tries to pick a fight with...
Blodgett, vaulting with a borrowed pole, managed a third-place tie in the pole vault at 13 feet. Varsity hammer thrower Jim Doty, after a horrendous qualifying effort of 159 ft., 9 in. on Friday had put him in the finals by half an inch, came through with a 172 ft., 2 1/2 in. heave on Saturday to take fifth. Doty also had to use borrowed equipment, and like many others he staggered out of a 7:30 a.m. exam Friday morning before flying to New York for the trials...
...Crimson hammer throwers, Stan Doten and Jim Doty, are around the 180-ft. mark and could score well. Doten and John Bronstein could place in the discus, but the varsity's two 50-ft shot putters, Hank Abbot and Steve Cohen, may find themselves out of the running...
...recording the hammer blows of 16th and 17th century discoveries that finally put Ptolemy's epicycle machine on science's junk heap, Author Koestler offers personable profiles of the leading cosmologists-Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo-as well as lively popularizations of their thought. He also makes his book's mildly controversial point, which is almost beside the point, that these scientific greats sleepwalked their way to profound insights, with a kind of intuitive genius that turned even wrong questions into right answers...