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Once in custody, Moore (who said his name really is Ferroll Warren Cottrelle). demonstrated that he was still a good salesman. He said that his desire to return to the U.S. was fired by the sight of the American flag in a parade. And besides, he wanted to clear his record for the sake of his two American-born, teen-age children. In court, he trembled, dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief, and pleaded guilty to one count of fraud. As a result of his cooperative and contrite air, his penalty was comparatively light:§ a fine...
Football, always a great sight of the U.S. autumn scene, was showing the fans some dazzling spectacles. Reason: brilliant October weather and fresh winds blowing from the rule book. The return to the one-platoon system swept the boring scramble of unlimited substitutions from the fields: games were easier to follow and shorter, players more versatile. Fans flocked to the stadiums to hear the bands and cheer the helmeted heroes, crowded even breather games in hopes of an upset. Two of the most bruising battles so far saw Big Ten Champion Wisconsin losing to U.C.L.A., 13-0, at Los Angeles...
...Leroy, in Africa for research on her doctorate thesis for a Radcliffe degree, was on a sight seeing tour, when apparently she lost balance and fell over into the falls. According to reports, the sot where she fell is 354 feet high...
...unlikely name, Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce, and a Parisian scene-painter named Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre developed the professionally workable "daguerreotype." It was so successful that a French cartoon soon complained that half of mankind had become "daguerreocrazed," while the rest was "daguerreomazed."*Everything in sight was caught on the magic plates-Victor Hugo's hand, the moon, the 30th reunion of the Yale class of 1810, President John Quincy Adams (first U.S. President ever photographed). But already the revolt against realism had begun. A Swedish photographer named Oscar Rejlander invented the composite photograph...
...Sight. An aluminum TV antenna that promises good reception to televiewers 100 miles from stations has been developed by the Channel Master Corp. of Ellenville, N. Y. The antenna is made of two newly designed high-frequency antennas, one on top of the other, plus a gridlike reflector for picking up TV signals. Price: $20.83 plus installation...