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...54th lap, his Ferrari skidded out of control. In the stands by the waterfront, Monte Carlo's glossy postwar idlers gasped and screamed. Igor's auto spun crazily and came to rest, backside-forward against a pile of straw. Slowly, with compressed lips, the prince emerged from his wrecked car, walked with dignity into the bar of the Hotel de Paris and was not seen again...
...destroy the value Berliners put on their lives, their homes, and their city. Terror has allies. Lesser and more ordinary suffering has corroded untold values. In countless brains and consciences, all political debate is held worthless. A typical newspaper cartoon this past winter showed a child pointing to a pile of cut timber: "Is that wood for our fireplaces, Daddy?" "No, son, it is for conference tables...
...question of just what the name "Wake" means stumps the editors. Irish wakes, wakes of ships, and just plain waking up are all symbolized in the title. Hawkes, who claims the distinction of having picked the name back in '44 looks up from a pile of galley sheets and smiles. "It could mean anything," he concedes...
Discarding a dusty pile of temporary decisions, the Student Council last night permanently codified campaigning rules for all Council and National Student Association elections...
...ranged from a burnt match to a "new future" (a completely furnished three-bedroom house in San Fernando Valley, a Kaiser and a choice of jobs). One program, Mutual's Queen for a Day, bragged that it had given away $1,117,000 in three years. With the pile of prizes mounting at every flick of the dial, networkers were not certain just how much was being offered, but guessed that last week's kitty amounted to about $214,000. And that figure omitted the giveaways on less spectacular, but numerous, local stations...