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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small, twin-engined plane had apparently been flying low, and investigators guessed that the distinguished passenger in the copilot's seat must have ordered the pilot to do so because he wanted to get a closer look at the coffee plantations he owned in the area. The plane never reached its destination. Two days later a search party found its wreckage-and with it the body of the distinguished passenger: Barthélémy Boganda, 48, Premier of the Central African Republic...
From his Hampshire home, doughty Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 71, whose forthright expressions of opinion often seem equally harsh on friend and foe, announced a new project: a trip to Moscow to look over "this conflict between East and West." Trumpeted Monty: "I want to talk to these people to see what they think about it all." Did the field marshal think his, ah, straight-forward approach might smooth things a bit? "I certainly shall not make it worse...
...week in a cramped backstage office of Manhattan's garish Latin Quarter. "Let's have a leg shot, Betty," shouted a cameraman, and gamely she snaked out one of the most celebrated gams this side of Marlene Dietrich. "Spread open your dressing gown," snapped one photographer. "You look like you only...
When "Ky" Ebright retires in June, he can look back on one of the most successful records in rowing. His crews have been national college champions six times, took Olympic titles in 1928, 1932 and 1948. Last week, attired in his traditional battered hat, stubby (5 ft. 6 in.) Ky Ebright was still bustling around the California boathouse on the Oakland Estuary, roaring instructions and encouragement as he drove his oarsmen through his last season...
...experts look for another spectacular rise in the next few months. One factor is that the shortage of stock is easing as more and more issues come on sale to sponge up excess funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission reported a record 171 filings in March for issues of $2.2 billion...