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...furiously pumping a bicycle. Eh bien! Nappy was in a closely contested race, panting beside Marshals Ney, Murat and Massena. The Duke of Wellington was gaining fast amid cries that "The Englishman is right on our rear ends!" Worse, Nappy's teammates refused to help when his front tire went pffft. "If I win at. Waterloo, I'll give you a big share of the prize money," whined the Emperor. Mais non! Who should hit the tape first at the Waterloo velodrome? That Prussian ringer, Marshal Blücher. Merde alors...
...conferences in the presidential palace continued almost without a break for 48 hours as the military revolt spread across the country. Finally, rather than risk a full-scale civil war, Victor Paz Estenssoro, 57, President of Bolivia, climbed into his bulletproof Cadillac lor a tire-screeching ride to La Paz's El Alto Airport. There, pale and somber, he followed his beautiful wife Maria Teresa, 32, and four children aboard a military C-47 and flew off to exile in Lima, Peru. The camera of the lone photographer who snapped the departure was seized by an air force officer...
...headed back. Down went the throttle, up climbed the airspeed indicator-to 500, to 550, to 575 m.p.h. At that speed, the seemingly smooth salt flats felt like a washboard, and the 6,500-lb. car bucked and yawed. The needle touched 600 m.p.h., and-pow! The right rear tire disintegrated; Firestone had warned him not to top 550. Arfons popped his braking chutes, fought Monster to a shuddering stop, clambered unsteadily from the cockpit. "Whew!" he said. "This is an animal, not a car." On his second run through the measured mile, dockers caught Arfons at 559.179 m.p.h...
There will probably never be a return to the days of a century ago when the dominant Republicans could offer a ticket so ignorant of ethnic feeling and geographical distribution, but the Commonwealth, one hopes, will tire of its simple pleasures of sensational disclosures of corruption and endless indictments, and of voting for the end of a candidate's name. However, one suspects it wouldn't have it any other...
After taking the second-half kickoff Dartmouth's first team marched 64 yards in 9 plays for a sixth score. O'Brien, Dartmouth's leading ground gainer of the day with 61 yards, took it in for the score from five yards out. This tire Wilson missed the kick...