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...Riot was just a breath away when someone touched off a tear-gas bomb. Blinded, and choking on the thick smoke, spectators groped their way out of the Forum. Outside, the mob grew. Some 8,000 strong, it flowed down St. Catherine Street, blocked traffic and cheered when a truckload of kids shouted "Vive le Rocket!" Soon the hoodlums took over. Rocks arched through the yellow haze of street lights and store windows shattered. Jewelry shops were looted. Streetcars took a pasting. It was 2:30 a.m. before the Montreal cops had the city back under control...
Deflated. In Hamden, Ohio, after their truckload of steel shavings dribbled out along the road, causing a dozen flat tires in several hours, Truckers Floyd Wiseman and Roger Eberts were fined $10 apiece by Hamden Mayor Chester Nickell and put to work with hand brooms sweeping nearly nine miles of highway...
...tradition: that a Texan's word is as good as his bond. After the ranchers had eaten all the fried chicken they could hold and had sung themselves hoarse, they gave him a "cow shower" as a token of their esteem: a brand-new ranch Jeep and a truckload of 25 prime Angus calves...
Leaving. At the time, Rubi was busy. He was accompanying Hungarian Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor around Europe, like a bumblebee buzzing about a truckload of sugar. He still seemed disturbed, as a matter of fact, when he came to the U.S. last month. He visited New York to renew his acquaintance with Barbara, but then headed west to see Zsa Zsa again. Last week he was back in New York, and as he arrived, Dominican officials in Ciudad Trujillo announced that he was going to marry Barbara...
...famed Mille Miglia. But the betting favorites were the Germans and their hotshot Mercédès-Benz racers, which finished one-two in last summer's Le Mans 24-hour race. Headed by Engineer Alfred Neubauer, the Germans arrived weeks early with 24 mechanics and a truckload of spare parts, then drilled like a football team. Daily driving sessions were followed by nightly blackboard drills, and each mile of the course was memorized...