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Apparently his spark plugs were fouled. Hill's B.R.M. pit crew heard the rough engine too. Graham caught their frantic signals, grimly poured it on. Drifting through the corners as tightly as possible, slipstreaming other cars to gain momentum before he passed, Hill began to eat into Clark's lead at the rate of 3 sec. or more a lap. Clark knew Hill was coming; he kept glancing over his shoulder, ducking back to fiddle with his controls, trying to coax some response out of his sputtering engine...
...before Ghana gained independence eight years ago. His Convention People's Party then nominated 198 illustrious candi dates (including U.N. Delegate Alex Quaison-Sackey and Margaret Martei, secretary of the Women's Council), and last week Nkrumah simply declared them all elected-for lack of opposition. Explained Spark, the party weekly: "This will be an object lesson to all Africa on how democracy is organized and made to work smoothly and effectively under a one-party state...
...purpose remains: to discredit the free world, through ideological friends and dupes as well as through agents. It enlists a network of ostensibly independent papers, stoops to clumsy but temporarily harassing forgeries usually purported to be U.S. documents showing American diplomats engaged in subversion of neutralist governments. It can spark ventures like the protest movement against the execution in 1953 of the convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were able to claim in one of their last petitions that "never have more people, in all lands and all walks of life, been so shaken as by our imminent fate...
Conscience in Clay. The potter also became a pioneer of the industrial revolution. He built a model town for his 650 workers, named it Etruria for the ancient state in Italy whose rediscovered pottery helped spark the classical revival. He divided labor into a crude assembly line, carved a 93-mile canal to avoid overland transport of his fragile ware by horse, backed Inventors James Watt and Matthew Boulton, and installed one of their first industrial steam engines. His own invention, a pyrometer for measuring extremely high temperatures, helped to win him admission to the Royal Society...
...murders in one day." With an absent-minded kick, Bundie sent a stray piece of paper flying. Suddenly his heart leaped to his throat: the paper was identical to the one he had found inside the package the sinister foreigner had given him by mistake! Like some great spark plug, Bundie's mind flashed. Swiftly, he recounted the day's events to himself, "The circle with the Roman numeral seven in it was stamped on the sole of the foot of the other corpse. There must be a connection...