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...hung over Barry for an agonizing five seconds before the referee gave him the two points for a reversal. Freeman kept on driving, and when the final buzzer sounded, the ref gave him three more points for a near-pin, and a spectacular...
Sophomore Dick Low (160) beat Hank De Jong, 9-3, in a match far closer than the final score. That made it 5-3, and he and De Jong entered a tangle on the mat that nobody could make heads or tails of Suddenly, the ref gave Low 2 points for a take-down, even though Low was underneath De Jong's mid-section, grabbed an arm, and suddenly had control...
Minister of Overseas Territories Pierre Billotte proclaimed that "whatever France's interests in Somaliland may be, they are not worth her being open to the times." Hence a new independence ref erendum will be held in the colony be fore the middle of next year...
Thus began the most caustic kiss-off in the history of the Sino-Soviet squabble. By the time the Chinese Central Committee had finished its 1,270-word "Dear Ivan" letter, with a facetious ref erence to "fraternal greetings," it had accused Russia of every philandering trick from "great power chauvinism" to "collusion" with the U.S. In the process, China opened the split in Communism farther than ever...
These are but a few of the 4,000 or more queries fielded last week by a highly professional team at Time Inc. known variously about the shop as the morgue, edit ref and, correctly but rarely, the Bureau of Editorial Reference. Over the years, as the demands of the editors and the volume of information have grown, so has the bureau, which also serves TIME'S sister publications-LIFE, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED-as well as other divisions of the company...