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...signs a safe-conduct saying that we won't be tortured." Down in the street, tough French Paratroop Colonel Marcel Bigeard ordered a ceasefire, and then watched as the terrorists lowered a small bundle by string to the street. Two French officers and a noncom walked over to inspect this "token of surrender"; it blew up. wounding all three and narrowly missing Bigeard...
...Moscow last week, Coach Nicolai Komenkov insisted that there was nothing wrong with his boys' platform soles. But no one got a chance to inspect the shoes, and the International Amateur Athletic Federation decided to investigate. "The rules say nothing about the foot gear of a high jumper," said the I.A.A.F.'s Paul Mericamp, "but the federation has to take a stand on this phenomenon...
...week's end Mamie Eisenhower's disposition was understandably better. She was able to take a few steps around the room to inspect the cards and flowers that began pouring in after the White House announced her operation. Ahead lay a much more pleasant convalescence: late this month she will accompany the President to Newport, R.I. for a vacation beside...
...down from the train at Berlin's Ostbahnhof to plant chummy kisses on both cheeks of Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and Premier Otto Grotewohl. With Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the agile Armenian, at his elbow as Bulganin's tardy standin, Khrushchev marched confidently through the station to inspect a bristling guard of Russian-helmeted East Germans, and take the cheers of some 10,000 Berliners conscripted from their government offices and factories for the occasion...
...entered the firm as a deputy director and in 1938, according to Nurnberg trial records, joined the Nazi Party. That same year he entered Krupp's artillery-construction division, where he directed the design, sale and development of weapons until 1943, flying throughout Europe to inspect plants in Nazi-occupied territory...