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...Indians piled their weight upon the Mercedes, it broke down. With police aid, the visitors pulled themselves clear of the clustering crowd and fought their way to a nearby police van. Behind them, the happy mob pulled the Mercedes apart. Safe at last from their frantic fans, the Russians sped on in the paddywagon to reach an official reception at Government House one hour late...
...crawl on his hands and knees from the bottom to the top of the Spanish hill called Cerro de Los Angeles. At last the Constellation seemed to hover for a moment over the runway; then it touched and skidded, screaming and careening, while a U.S. Air Force crash truck sped alongside ready to spray it with a flame-extinguishing foam...
...Next day Clarence House officially announced that "no announcement concerning Princess Margaret's future is at present contemplated." and urged the press "to extend to Her Royal Highness their customary courtesy in respecting her privacy." But hot on the heels of this announcement, the Princess and the Commoner sped off for a weekend in the country, traveling separately but meeting at the Wills's vast, parklike estate in Berkshire. Hordes of newsmen and photographers collected outside its wrought-iron gates. Desperate for news, they moved in hungrily on the only source at hand, seven-year-old Marilyn Wills...
Died. James Dean, 24, most promising young cinemactor of 1955 (East of Eden) ; in a collision as he sped along a darkening highway in his silver Porsche Spyder sports car to enter a road race one week after he completed work in a new film, Giant; near Paso Robles, Calif...
Near the half of Saturday's game, an undergraduate stole over to the University of Massachusetts stands. Quickly, he grabbed a large sign proclaiming "Crush Harvard," sped to the home side, and before the UMass fans could react, virtually demolished...