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...California Housewife Earlene Brown, 21, hit on the happy practice of tossing iron balls around the landscape just four months ago, got the hang of it so quickly that she took a trip to Washington, D.C. for the women's Olympic tryouts, heaved the 4-kilo (8 Ibs. 15 oz.) shot a distance of 46 ft. 9½ in. for a new American record and a place on the team. As if to make sure she would get to Melbourne, formidable Earlene (226 Ibs.) also picked up a discus, threw it in a style that recalled a comic-strip...
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Even to optimists, the U.S. proposals for an international atomic agency often seemed like little more than a buzz of oratory. Last week the U.S. produced the goods. Before the U.N., Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. made a bare announcement: the U.S. has allocated 100 kilo grams (220 Ibs.) of fissionable material to be distributed to atomic "have not" nations as fuel for experimental reactors...
...last hours of Namdinh, the profiteers made big money: bus fares to Hanoi shot up from 80 piasters ($2) to 1,000 piasters ($28); ice-cream men were charging 5 piasters a kilo instead of the customary 1½; and some Vietnamese officials, entrusted with the grave responsibility of determining which citizens should be evacuated by air to Hanoi, were making sure their selections were rewarded. In Namdinh there was also courage: a bunch of Catholic teenagers strapped grenades to their belts and vowed they would start a guerrilla war against the Communists; a Vietnamese priest considered what the Communists...
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