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...eastern suburbs. Two revolutionaries were assembling a bomb from dynamite and steel pipe when the weapon, set off unintentionally, killed both. At Columbus Day ceremonies next day, someone tossed a bomb, hidden in a bouquet, at members of the junta: Lieut. Colonels Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and their civilian satellite, President Germán Suárez Flamerich. Military policemen quickly scooped up the bomb, but it was a dud anyway. Twenty-four hours later, Llovera Páez broadcast that the junta had "crushed" a countrywide uprising, with gunfights...
...year-old stenographer from San Diego named Florence Chadwick topped the Ederle record by swimming the distance in 13 hr. 20 min. (TIME, Aug. 21, 1950). But until last week no woman, and only nine men, had ever swum the Channel eastward from Dover to Cap Gris-Nez, the 21-mile stretch which, like a cat, hates to be stroked the wrong...
...Calumet Farm added another to its dazzling array of racing wins. Last week in the $75,275 Arlington Futurity, a Calumet colt, undefeated Hill Gail, won by better than a length over a field of 18 of the nation's promising two-year-olds. ¶ From Cape Gris-Nez, France, the traditional take-off for English Channel swimmers, eight men (six of them Egyptians) and a British girl, 17, last week started the 21-mile swim. The girl was pulled out of the water after two hours. Two men finally made it: Phil Rising, 41, an English watchmaker...
...women's record last year when she swam the English Channel in 13 hrs. 20 min., arrived in Dover to start training for another try. This time she hoped to be the first woman to do it the hard way, from Dover to Cap Gris-Nez...
Their medals tinkling discreetly on their chests, the five military judges walked into the court. Then the four defendants marched in. First among them was a tall old man, with pince-nez and a vinegar-sour face, who bowed stiffly to the presiding judge. He was Lieut. General Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen, 72, military governor of Belgium in World War II, accused together with three other members of his occupation regime of causing the execution of 240 hostages, deporting Belgians for slave labor, deporting Jews to death camps...