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...France radioactive rain has become a specialty of the Communist press, which blames almost every malaise on U.S. (but not Soviet) bomb tests. The Communist daily Liberation told how growing vegetables were yellowed, how a vineyard was burned "as if by a flame thrower," how an elderly farmer was rained on, felt a prickling sensation and turned yellow all over. French rain does occasionally show a slight amount of radioactivity, but it is never enough to do damage to humans, certainly not enough to blast the leaves off grapevines...
...only Harvardmen competing for Olympic positions were Bob Rittenburg, captain of the 1955 Crimson track squad, and Pete Harpel, the track team's leading hammer-thrower this year. Rittenburg won his heat in the 440 meter hurdles but could not quite make it in the finals as three of his opponents broke the existing world record. Harpel finished well out of the running in the hammer...
Captain Art Siler, IC4A discus champion, will be the only Crimson entrant in the annual New York Athletic Club meet in New York tomorrow. Tuesday, he and Pete Harpel, the team's standout hammer-thrower, will enter the New England AAU meet in Needham...
...roomful of reporters and photographers burst into applause at a Manhattan hospital last week as syndicated Labor Columnist Victor Riesel entered. It was 41-year-old Riesel's first press conference since he was blinded six weeks earlier by an unknown acid thrower (TIME, April 16 et seq.). The little (5 ft. 4 in.) New York Daily Mirror columnist had lost 30 Ibs. Two neat white surgical pads shielded his eyes. But Riesel was cheerfully game and bristling with determination to renew his long fight against labor racketeers, whom he charges with the acid attack...
...biggest show, ABC's You Asked for It, depends less on Baker's voice than on his nerves. A TV program aimed at showing its viewers whatever they want to see, You Asked for It has required Baker to stand still while a knife-thrower ringed his body with blades, an archer sent steel-tipped arrows whistling through balloons held close to his side, and a marksman shot the ace of spades out of his hand. He has been hoisted head-high by Ada Ash, billed as "the world's strongest woman." As his show last week...