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...Salvaged from a frigate which sank off the Dutch coast in 1799 with ?1,000,000 in gold aboard, ruining many underwriters. The bell hangs over Lloyd's center rostrum, is rung by a "waiter" in scarlet and gold. One stroke means disaster at sea; two mean good news...
...Lenten calm settled over Central America. At Costa Rican Junta President José Figueres' finca, which had recently rung with the none-too-rhythmic clump of marching Caribbean Legionnaires, silent peons spread coffee beans on the patio to dry in the warm tropical sun. The Legion was dead. It had been done in by the guile of its old enemy, Nicaragua's "Tacho" Somoza-and by the no-nonsense order of the Organization of American States (TIME, Jan. 3). The end had come before the Legion could fire a shot at Tacho or its other prime target, Dominican...
Walt McCurdy returns to the starting lineup tonight for the first time in two months, as Bill Barclay's varsity basketball team travels to New Jersey to meet Princeton. The Tigers hold the number two spot on the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League ladder, one rung below Yale...
...match won't be merely exercise for the varsity because the YMCA squad stands half way up the "A" league ladder while the Crimson shares a lower rung with the University Club...
...sharing the Paris dinner table-and the headlines -with U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Bramuglia had reached the top of the ladder. In Argentina there is room for only one person (and wife) on the top rung...