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...ditch, and burst into flames. The fastest car in the race, a prototype 4.9-liter Maserati, led for the first two hours (averaging about 120 m.p.h.), then pulled into the pits, and was not seen again. The U.S.'s Phil Hill, driving an Aston Martin, topped a hummock at 150 m.p.h. to find a car rolling over and over directly in front of him; swerving off the road to avoid a crash, Hill damaged his gearbox beyond repair. When the checkered flag finally fluttered, only 13 cars, out of 49 starters, were still running. And the winner...
...laced duck-blind, the two hunters saw a Chippewa Indian guide splashing toward them through the frozen marsh. "Man is shot!" he shouted. "An accident! An accident!" The two men hurried to another blind, 300 yds. away, where they came on a hunter's nightmare. On the rough hummock, Harry W. Anderson, 67, retired vice president of General Motors, lay dying, a gaping wound in the back of his head. Over his body crouched Harlow Curtice, 66, onetime General Motors president (TIME, Jan. 2, 1956), in a state of trembling shock...
...Canada combined-is a geologic throwback to the Ice Age. It is the world's most hostile environment of earth and air, a land of near motionless molecules and rapacious winds, a patchwork of ice fields with blue-seamed crevasses and jumbled hummock beds, all set tenuously on a continent rumbling with pressure and restless with movement...
Besides the outspoken, who had already taken up positions in the debate, there was many a legislator still warily keeping his own counsel, or feeling for a secure hummock on middle ground. Said South Carolina's conservative Democrat Burnet Rhett Maybank: "I think MacArthur would have had us do too much with too little, though his theory is right." Also in the middle was Illinois' independent Democrat, Senator Paul Douglas, who would not bomb Chinese bases in China, but advocated a naval blockade of China as well as U.S. aid to Chinese guerrillas on the mainland and "helping...
...Venezuela. On the far plains, the llanos, that stretch from the Caribbean coastal Andes southward to the jungles of the Orinoco, the rains had ceased. Now, where the sparse cattle had been herded from hummock to hummock by boat, the floods would subside. Now the earth would crack and parch through six months of drought...