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...Sixteenth Olympiad has been underway for less than a week now, and already the Americans and Russians are busily undermining international good will...
...human cadavers to see whether the bottleneck material could be removed by a simple instrument, and then testing the method on live dogs to see how well they stood the operation. With encouraging answers to both questions, Dr. Bailey got a supply of May curettes: metal tubes, only one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter, nine inches long, with a nick filed halfway through at one end. On Oct. 29 he was ready for his first patient, a man of 51 who had had a severe heart attack in 1953, and now faced lasting invalidism because insufficient blood was reaching...
...Blue, which was ranked sixteenth in the latest United Press poll, though not even in the top twenty of the Associated Press poll, rates as a 14 and one half-point favorite according to latest quotations...
...thoroughbreds that went to the post last week for the Garden State (N.J.) Stakes were competing for the biggest purse ($319,210) in racing history. At a mile and one-sixteenth, the race was the toughest and most revealing test of two-year-olds in the nation...
...Carrying 130 lbs. in the Inglewood Handicap at Hollywood Park, California-bred Swaps responded to one whack of Willie Shoemaker's bat and galloped to a new world record of 1 minute 39 seconds for the mile-and-a-sixteenth course. It was Swaps's second world record in his last two starts: he snapped Citation's six-year-old mile record two weeks ago with a mark...