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...Whitfield, a gold-medal winner at Helsinki and London, punished his aching body to the limit and sped past the 800-meter finish only a tenth of a second slower than his Olympic record of 1952. But he could not win. He was fifth. Whitfield's plight was typical of last week's two-day Olympic trials at Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum...
...mister? I gotta my sister for you. Come on, Joe! Cheap!" the sailor pulled away, then slumped drunkenly to the sidewalk. Mouse-quick, the eight-year-old tried to grab the sailor's wallet, but the sailor weakly pushed him away. Unable to roll the man, the urchin sped away to sell him: in Naples bigger urchins pay 500 lire, perhaps 1,000 lire, for news of a likely victim to beat...
Shinicky, 62, campaigned vigorously. One day last week, after charging that national police were intimidating people into voting for Rhee, he boarded a train in Seoul to begin a stumping tour of southwestern Korea. As the train sped south, Shinicky slumped over quietly, died later of a cerebral hemorrhage. Word of his death was flashed back to Seoul, and his body was put aboard a special government train for return to the capital...
...were even invited to Tallin, the capital of Estonia, which has been barred to foreigners since World War II. On a trip to the 14th century Trinity Monastery at Zagorsk, the Americans were startled by their hosts' propaganda measures: throughout the 45-mile drive, an open ZIS limousine sped along before their motorcade crammed with Soviet cameramen taking pictures. Inside the monastery batteries of klieg lights ensured that the photographers would not miss a detail. The conferences had hardly got under way, when it seemed that they might break up in a squabble. When Metropolitan Nikolai, No. 2 Russian...
...bubble of gas expanding at 60 miles per second on the eastern edge of the sun opened the film. It grew steadily more brilliant for five to ten minutes. Suddenly part of the top broke off and sped upward at 700 miles per second or 2 1/2 million miles an hour...