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...with the Super. Washington got its first atomic jolt in early September 1949, after the detection apparatus picked up indisputable evidence that the Russians had set off their first atomic explosion (now dubbed "Joe I"). The scientists had been warning all along that the U.S. monopoly was a highly perishable item, but this proved that it was even more perishable than they had thought. The evidence showed that the Russian explosion was not just an evolutionary "model T" bomb like Alamogordo. It was a plutonium bomb, demonstrating that the Russians must already have built a large atomic plant rivaling some...
That was all. But it was enough to jolt Britain's weekend quiet. Sir Winston is going on 79. He has been shouldering the extra burden of being his own Foreign Secretary. There was also the frantic go-around of the coronation. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, convalescing in the U.S. from a bile-duct operation, would not be back on the job for at least another four months, and there was no assurance that when he did get back he would be able to operate at full steam. Wan, irritable and sometimes forgetful of late, Sir Winston, it appeared...
...Oldsmobile-Allard out of the short curve, tires screeching, and sped on toward the little hump-backed bridge. Driver Wilder, a veteran of sport-car racing, knew what to expect at the crest of the bridge: a brief, soaring pitch with all four wheels off the ground, then a jolt as the car settled to the roadway again-then a strong foot on the gas for the next hill. But Driver Wilder never made the hill. His Allard smacked down askew on the roadway, veered, skidded up a bank and turned over. Driver Wilder, his skull crushed, was killed instantly...
...European View. The main-event race was a 100-miler for big cars like the one that had killed Bob Wilder the day before. On the eighth lap, with last year's winner, Driver Bill Spear, leading in his Ferrari-Mexico, the spectators got another jolt. Some 55 seconds behind Spear, in fourth place, was Harry Grey, 37, one-time British professional driver and now a Long Island sales manager for European cars. Pushing his Jaguar at an 80-m.p.h. clip, Grey went into a spin, flipped over a time and a half, skidded to an upside-down stop...
George S. Patton. The hickory-chassis car took the jolt, as did the passengers, but Blood & Guts' caretaker called the law, and Bill was booked for reckless driving, only to have the case thrown out of court...