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Onto millions of French TV screens flashed the martial visage of Napoleon, resplendent in his braided uniform and two-cornered hat. Then the camera descended to bare thighs and legs furiously pumping a bicycle. Eh bien! Nappy was in a closely contested race, panting beside Marshals Ney, Murat and Massena. The Duke of Wellington was gaining fast amid cries that "The Englishman is right on our rear ends!" Worse, Nappy's teammates refused to help when his front tire went pffft. "If I win at. Waterloo, I'll give you a big share of the prize money," whined...
...Strength. "Senator Kennedy," said the hospital's senior surgeon, Dr. Thomas Corriden, "was in deep shock when he was admitted. His pulse varied a great deal; his blood pressure was almost negligible." Some of his ribs were fractured, along with three vertebrae in his lower back. One kid ney was bruised, and a lung was punctured. He was in such bad shape that no time was wasted trying to stitch up a 6-in. gash in his right hand. He was given several transfusions, fluid and air were removed from his chest cavity to help his breathing...
Records All Around. Clark and Gur ney were both on hand with new Lotus-Fords-along with seven other drivers with Ford engines behind them. Nor were these the same souped-up versions of the old family Fairlane engine that raced in 1963. For this year, Ford had a brand-new, strictly racing engine with an aluminum block, double overhead camshaft, and a fuel injection system that cranked up close...
...Alberto Alves Carvalho Pinto, 53, the able onetime governor of Sao Paulo state, who resigned in anger after six hopeless months of struggle against Brazil's wild inflation (about 85% in 1963), its fleeing capital and its immense foreign debt. In to cope with the same problems came Ney Galvao, 60, a smalltime provincial banker whose only previous claim to fame was as a Goulart-appointed head of the Bank of Brazil...
Only 22 hours after Paraná's Governor Ney Braga requested U.S. aid, three planeloads of food, medicine, tents, fire fighters, doctors and nurses landed in Parana. A U.S. Navy Task Force in Rio on maneuvers provided gauze, cotton and medication for fire victims. Top U.S. fire-control experts flew in immediately, including Merle Lowden, chief of the fire-control division of the U.S. Forest Service. Peace Corps doctors and nurses opened a 100-bed hospital in Tibagi, where U.S. officials began doling out supplies. Homeless and penniless the refugees may be, says a Brazilian in Tibagi, "but most...