Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beirut River. All five adults in the car were killed at once; the girl died hours later. The charred body of Fayet Esrouer came to rest sitting on a cliffside rock, feet propped up as if still on brakes, and hands still clutching the wheel that was no longer there. On the asphalt of the highway, the motorcycle cop was sprawled dead. Behind him, two gendarmes in a jeep sat dazed and bleeding behind shattered shatterproof glass. Stopped still farther back, Sami Solh's limousine turned round and sped up the mountain road. The assassins made off. That evening...
...these desperately needed loans -Turkey's foreign indebtedness now runs over $1 billion, and many foreign concerns will no longer ship goods to Istanbul without cash on the barrelhead-Adnan Menderes promised to institute long overdue financial reforms, cut back on his grandiose economic-development program...
...faced with the Imperator of Roman decadence," cried Paris Editor Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. "We [will] no longer be in the republican tradition," mourned famed Historian Andre Siegfried. These were almost the only voices decisively raised last week when Premier Charles de Gaulle unveiled his proposed new constitution for France. De Gaulle submitted it to a 39-man Constitutional Consultative Committee, and, in a characteristic touch, gave them precisely 20 days to consider...
...came last spring when the gendarmes, looking for witnesses to an auto accident that happened outside Yvette's house, stumbled on Wayne. After questioning him, they turned him over to U.S. Army authorities in Verdun. Like a waking child, Wayne rediscovered a harsh world which he could no longer grasp. After 14 years with Yvette, he spoke French with a marked Norman accent. He barely understood English; even the G.I. uniform that was given him seemed unfamiliar...
Last week Chris had to share top billing with 16-year-old Sylvia Ruuska of Berkeley, Calif., another potential world-beater who specializes in the longer distances. Sylvia set a world record (5:43.7) in the 400-meter individual medley, an American mark (20:34.6) in the 1,500-meter freestyle. In the one event where the two met, Sylvia used her greater strength to outlast the smoother-stroking Chris in the 400-meter freestyle. At week's end, U.S. prospects for dethroning the Australian girls looked brighter...