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...grumpy retaliation, Argentine customs authorities recently began to harass Uruguayans leaving Argentina. They took candy from children on the grounds that it contained material "necessary to Argentine economy," confiscated polo sticks of departing sportsmen. They even tried to take the official seal from a Paraguayan Minister. Last week they pulled the meanest trick yet: they seized the trophy which a Uruguayan football team had won in Argentina...
...they must to all sportsmen, poker and craps finally came to the White Sea League.* Three-day games of five-card stud, with table stakes, no limit, became routine. The poker ended abruptly when one ship won $1,992, leaving $8 as total capital among the other three. Craps redistributed the wealth, but not for long. A few days before the convoy finally sailed, the game became the property of two shipmates. One, a Yale alumnus, owned the dice. The other, a Sing Sing alumnus, had all the money...
Blignaut and Botha ushered Chanke into another room, slipped a noose around his neck, threw the rope end over a beam. Then they ordered the sweating native to stand on a chair and jump. Chanke collapsed, unconscious. The noise brought other clerks, arrest for the sportsmen. Sentence: $100 fines for Blignaut and Botha. Newpapers suggested that the Government should remove such Afrikaners from authority over the Bantu...
...U.S.S.R. has so far ignored Olympic games. But sports isolation has started to fade. Reported TIME Correspondent Dick Lauterbach from Moscow last week: Russia and the U.S. have a score of games in common (including basketball), and Soviet sportsmen are anxious to match skills with U.S. athletes, would welcome visits by American teams...
Next the Nazis tried terror. Two famed skiers, Krisitian Aubert and Tor Salvesen, were questioned by the Gestapo; burly torturers trampled on their chests until shattered ribs pierced their lungs. Skater Ivar Ballanrud and scores of other athletes were arrested. But of Norway's 300,000 organized sportsmen, no more than 1% went over to the quislings...