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...double victory for the second year in a row, took the team title for Villanova by just 2⅓ points over Manhattan. ¶Going down the stretch in a wild scramble to win Hialeah's $135,000 Flamingo Stakes, Jockey Manuel Ycaza whipped at his bay mount. Jewel's Reward, with understandable zeal. But Jewel's Reward flinched from the lefthanded slashing, carried wide and collided with Calumet's fast-closing Tim Tarn. And when Tim Tam, with Champion Willie Hartack aboard, was nosed out at the wire, Willie lodged a protest. He did not have...
...rocky Mediterranean coast between Acre and Lebanon, decided to build a coastal road to link their village with other communities. A bulldozer was at work slicing away the sand dunes when one day its driver noticed that he was grazing what seemed to be scorched pavement with jewel-encrusted slabs. Archaeologist Moshe Prausnitz, British-trained senior inspector of Israel's Department of Antiquities, arrived on the scene, found a loose layer of burned mosaic floor, and under that two layers of superb mosaic that seemed to be virtually undamaged...
...Foster Dulles assured the monarch that the U.S. was willing to cooperate fully with pro-Western Morocco, expressed a readiness to step up economic and military aid. For his part, Mohammed V had shown where his heart lies: his personal gift to the President of the U.S. was a jewel-encrusted saber inscribed with a passage from the Koran: "The triumph comes from God and the victory is at hand...
...President ticked off the list of new U.S. weapons: missiles of all shapes and sizes for the Army, Navy and Air Force.* The jewel of his collection was on a red velvet coverlet near his desk as he spoke. It was the 4-ft. nose cone to an Army Jupiter missile. Said the President: "One difficult obstacle on the way to producing a useful long-range weapon is that of bringing a missile back from outer space without its burning up like a meteor . . . This object here in my office is the nose cone of an experimental missile...
When Queen Elizabeth, dressed in her jewel-encrusted coronation gown and diamond tiara, read the Speech from the Throne written by the Conservative government and outlining its legislative aims, Prime Minister Diefenbaker's strategy came clear. His government would introduce legislation to raise pensions for the aged, needy and war veterans; it planned to provide cash advances for farmers with unsold wheat, and to embark on a far-reaching program of hydroelectric power development. If Parliament balked at any significant part of his program, confident John Diefenbaker would call an early election. Said cautious Louis St. Laurent: "It does...