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During his Mexican years, Vidali-Contreras had an outspoken enemy in the U.S., goateed Carlo Tresca, a fearless tyranny-hater and an exiled Italian anarcho-socialist. Tresca's Italian-language weekly, Il Martello (The Hammer), publicly accused Vidali-Contreras of many acts of terrorism, and the following specific crimes: 1) the assassination in Barcelona of Camillo Berneri, Italian anarchist, during the Spanish civil war; 2) the murder in Mexico of Tiña Modotti, Vidali's Communist mistress...
...measure of China's tragedy is not Shanghai's soaring inflation, nor the tide of battles lost & won. It is the horde of refugees streaming southward, 30,000,000 starving, diseased, despairing people. They stand for the breakdown of Chinese society under Communist hammer blows which caught China in the difficult and disturbing transition toward Western progress. The Communist attack has not only halted such progress; it is sweeping away the village, the family-all the ancient pillars of Chinese society which endured despite primitive economics and decadent politics. TIME China Correspondent Fred Gruin last week headed...
Most college hammer throwers figure they'll die happy if they hit 160 feet. The recognized world's record is 193 feet, the American record 189 feet, 7 1/2 inches, and the National collegiate record 183 feet, 10 inches. Felton, a six foot, 22-year-old Senior from Philadelphia, has thrown better than 180 feet twice this spring and hasn't fallen below...
...make up for the brute strength he lacks, Felton uses speed and finesse. Like most good hammer men, he takes three turns, which require perfect timing and footwork. Getting the iron ball whirling around at top speed while staying within a seven-foot, hard-clay circle takes split second coordination. A hammer thrower should be able to start quickly, hold himself stiff without breaking at the waist, and on the turns, glide, not jump across the circle to the final explosive pivot lift. Some experts say he should be able to run 25 yards as fast as a sprinter. Felton...
...notices. Medals, he keeps, carefully folded in strips of gray flannel. They fill up three or four small boxes. No meet is too small for him in the off season. Last summer, after placing second in the Nationals, he went down to Manchester, Connecticut and won the hammer throw at Tinty's Flying Ranch track and field meet...