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...wide Potsdamer Platz, which juts from the Russian sector into the British and U.S. sectors, Russian-sector police staged another raid on German black marketeers. A big crowd of Germans quickly gathered, burned Communist flags in the street, and tried to overturn a car suspected of containing a Red bigwig. Women shouted, "Get out of Berlin, you Communist bandits!" When the crowd stoned the raiders, the police answered with gunfire. Several Germans were wounded...
...Murderers' Row"† included Lou Gehrig (49 homers), Joe DiMaggio (29), Bill Dickey (22), George Selkirk (18), Frankie Crosetti (15). This year, on the other side of the Harlem River, New York Giant fans are being treated to a show of fence-busting that is almost certain to overturn the Yankees' record. By this week, the Giants had banged out 159 home runs in in games; in the 43 games they had left, they could scarcely miss getting the 24 more homers they need to break the record...
Rhodes Scholar Fulbright was well steeped in such comparisons. Last week he promised to introduce a Constitutional amendment providing for the simultaneous election of the President and both branches of Congress, for equal terms. The chances to overturn 159 years of Constitutional tradition were scarcely favorable. But the dilemma in Washington had excited new speculation about the Constitution and its rigidities...
Peru was in a state of electoral grace. Its free election last week, itself a startling novelty, might prove the most significant overturn in Peru's violent electoral history. Far in the lead, with much of the vote unofficially tabulated, was Dr. Jose Luis Bustamante Rivero, candidate of the National Democratic Front. Snowed under was General Eloy G. Ureta, favored by the Government...
...strange tactics of political war, King's Liberal Party chose Grey North Riding, on the rocky shore of Lake Huron's Georgian Bay, as the place where newcomer McNaughton could best be elected. Promptly the pesky Tories saw another chance to overturn King's plans by beating his key Cabinet man, nominated a solid local citizen, popular Mayor Garfield Case. Their election issue: McNaughton's avowed opposition to conscription. Last week they were preparing to plaster the whole district with posters saying: "Do We or Don't We [want conscription]? Vote Yes. Vote Case...