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...tall, imperial figure budged not an inch. Again the distraught colonel pleaded: "I beg you, Father, get down." This time the President leaned slightly forward. A split second later, a stream of bullets ripped through the limousine. When the firing stopped, Charles de Gaulle flicked fragments of the broken rear window from his coat and declaimed: "What, again...
...patriots? When World War II came along, despite a personal battle with blindness, Ford volunteered for overseas duty. He directed the Navy's film documentary unit, received a machine-gun wound at the battle of Midway, gathered evidence for the Nuremberg trials and retired with the rank of rear admiral in the Reserves...
When the CBS Evening News escalated its nightly show from 15 to 30 minutes a decade ago this week, NBC followed suit seven days later and ABC brought up the rear in January 1967. Since then, the NBC team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley has split up, and ABC's game of anchormen roulette finally stopped spinning last year with the competitive combination of Harry Reasoner and Howard K. Smith. Only CBS's Walter Cronkite, 56, has outlasted the ten years of assassinations, riots, space shots, political conventions, elections and Viet Nam. In a business constantly crackling...
...simple fix, either. An electromagnet in the vehicle's nose was connected by wire to a battery in the rear. The nose of each car lined up for the race rests flush against a hinged metal plate that drops forward into the asphalt at the start, allowing the vehicle to roll forward down the inclined raceway. As he settled back into his racer, Gronen's helmet touched off a lever that activated the battery and magnet, and as the metal plate fell forward the magnet's pull toward it gave his vehicle enough extra starting impetus...
...Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Frank W. Fenno, 70, Navy submarine commander who, shortly before the fall of Corregidor in 1942, stole into enemy-infested Manila Bay in the U.S.S. Trout to deliver a cargo of ammunition and slipped out two days later to carry most of the Philippine treasury to safety; of cancer; in Kensington, Md. On his way to Pearl Harbor with the loot, Fenno sank two enemy vessels, winning the first of three Navy Crosses...