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...women's contingent to the Olympic Games (TIME, Aug. 23), who escaped while competing in events abroad. Last week, after the hockey team was welcomed back to Prague (see cut), the government canceled its date to play the Racing-Club de France. Reason: "too many of our finest sportsmen sent out to represent the national flag remain abroad...
...costs down somehow. Last week, he announced a $2,088 utility car, $136 cheaper than other K-F cars (it has no chrome and fewer frills). The utility car is a combination car and truck which K-F hopes to sell to small tradesmen, farmers and sportsmen. The rear seat folds into the floor and there is a station-wagonlike gate in the back...
Elsewhere in Britain last week, other blood-sportsmen stood bloodied but unbowed before their detractors. In Wiltshire, a meeting of local county executives gave short shrift to a Labor bill recently introduced in Parliament "to prohibit the hunting and coursing of certain animals." If such a bill became law, they warned, "Labor's Minister of Agriculture could forget all about any future cooperation from farmers." In Yorkshire, the Master of the Bedale Hunt stood firm against the attack of a lifelong cripple who, denied the use of his arms, had seized a pen in his teeth to charge...
...Yardling sportsmen will feel right at home in the new Union game room next term, Ira Peterman '52, chairman of the Union Committee announced last night...
...congress moved smoothly ahead on schedule. Delegates applauded on cue, unanimously approved one after another of the government's proposals (including the one to increase the population). Looking forward to unsettled times, the Bulgarian Union of Sports denounced tennis as a bourgeois pastime; henceforth, sportsmen will be instructed in "shooting competitions, handling and unmounting of different weapons, the use of ordinary and automatic rifles, pistols and machine guns...