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October 12 was set as the day of the coup, and General Velez ordered a final meeting at headquarters for the night of Sept. 23. That afternoon Reyes got a tipoff, frantically called an emergency meeting at home to warn his associates. But there was a double double-cross and the police sprang the trap then & there. The name of John Griffiths, onetime U.S. embassy worker, was tossed in to give the conspiracy some foreign color. He had once been friendly with Reyes...
...Pushups. At 33, Joe DiMaggio has black hair, beginning to be flecked with grey. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and solid (198 lbs.) in the smart double-breasted suits he wears off the playing field, he might be mistaken for a man with an office in midtown Manhattan. The tipoff that he is an athlete is his walk. It has a flowing, catlike quality, without waste motion...
Traditionally versatile, Harvard's ends may do just about everything but sell peanuts this fall in the Stadium. The tipoff on just how strong his flank-men are came when Art Valpey switched tall Tom Guthrie, former first-string end at Notre Dame, to tackle when the 230-pound transfer student reported for practice earlier this month...
Smith, Roberts and French Ambassador Yves Chataigneau finally agreed to issue a hold-for-release warning of each Kremlin meeting, and a tipoff on which embassy would be host at the subsequent huddle. This saved legwork in surrounding all three embassies, but produced no real news; correspondents were reduced to cabling analyses (which sometimes disagreed) of the envoys' facial expressions. In five meetings, the press got about 120 noncommittal words out of Smith, less than that out of Roberts, nothing but vague smiles out of Chataigneau, not even a smile out of Molotov...
...week's end the Sox had won 43 of their last 60 games. The experts could think of nothing except fire or flood (or maybe a slump) that would keep them out of the World Series. The tipoff on Red Sox power and depth: when their batting star, Ted Williams, was benched recently with a bad back, the club won 13 out of 15 games. Said Joe McCarthy last week, with the air of a man saying all there was to say, '.'You got to lose some ball games during a season and we happened to lose...