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...scaled 15 ft. California Schoolboy Ulis Williams, 19, chased Veteran Olympic Champion Otis Davis, 28, to the wire in the 440, finished only 0.2 sec. behind him. An unorthodox upstart from Southern California, Bob Avant, dived headfirst over the high-jump bar, somersaulted onto his back with a crunching thud after clearing 7 ft. to beat Boston University's John Thomas. Loose-limbed Ralph Boston of Tennessee State landed only ¼ in. shy of his third 27-ft. broad jump, and three men heaved the 16-lb. shot more than...
...that the Loeb Pleasure Palace houses in its bottomless toy box, in an immense and elaborate hymn to tedium. Peer Gynt fell--like the silly feathered pig which makes an agonizing descent from the rafters (while the actors stand and star, speechless)--with a long long, oh so long thud. (Three long hours...
...Bottle. For twelve hours the chatter of automatic weapons was punctuated by the deeper thud of shells from Congolese armored cars. Pitch-darkness and bad marksmanship limited the casualties to one Tunisian and four Congolese dead, eleven Tunisians and 30 Congolese wounded. With morning, firing finally stopped, and British General Henry Alexander, commander in chief of the Ghanaian army, appeared...
...first the invisible, uninvited guest was a minor nuisance. Every so often it seemed to amuse itself by bouncing a ball down the stairs. Then the ball began to thud like a sack of potatoes. Empty rooms echoed with eerie cries for help. But what made it all intolerable was when the ghost sat down with the family before the television set and amused itself by brushing clammy hands across unsuspecting faces...
...Drumming Thud. Tough-minded Ha-yato Ikeda, the Minister of Trade, agreed with Kishi, said that "to postpone the visit would be to bow to Communist pressure." But Minister of State Akagi strongly advised cancellation. Kishi turned to National Police Director Ishiwara and asked his opinion. Japan's top cop replied cautiously, "There is a limit to the guarantees the police can give about protecting the President," and urged Kishi to "reconsider" the invitation to Ike. Two other Cabinet members said they thought the police chief's advice should be accepted. None of the others had anything...