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...slot at night. A "champion" and a "challenger" must solve a picture puzzle consisting initially of a spattering of dots. To connect the dots and get the picture's outlines clearer, contestants must answer questions. When the picture is guessed, e.g., the face of Napoleon, the winner is rewarded at a base-pay scale of $20 per unconnected dots. This may soar with such refinements as Double Dotto, Triple Dotto and Double Double Dotto. Home players can get in on the act by giving their answers via telephone...
...just whipped Soviet Decathlon Hero Vasily Kuznetsov, but the husky U.S. Negro got a brotherly buss from the loser and a tremendous roar of approval from the 30,000 fans, as he mounted the winner's platform in Moscow's Lenin Stadium and smilingly held a bouquet of flowers aloft in triumph. Rafer Lewis Johnson, 22, of Kingsburg, Calif, had treated appreciative Muscovites to one of the greatest individual performances in track and field history. He had amassed a world-record 8,302 points in the rugged decathlon*—:considered by many the toughest test of human endurance...
...Calumet Farm's Gen. Duke, winner of $139,385 as a three-year-old in 1957 and co-favorite (with Bold Ruler) in last year's Kentucky Derby until scratched on race day, was destroyed in Lexington, Ky. Veterinarians found he was suffering from wobbles, an incurable spinal disease...
...unexpectedly stiff competition from Poland. The U.S. men won 115-97 but the women lost 54-52. The U.S.'s Glenn Davis scored a double victory in the 400-meter run and 400-meter hurdles, but 100,000 fans in Warsaw cheered loudest for their own Jerzy Chromik, winner of the 3,000-meter steeplechase in a world-record...
Died. Peter Collins, 26, sports-car racer, one of Britain's three top speed drivers (with Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn), winner of the British Grand Prix (1958), the French Grand Prix (1956) and the Belgian Grand Prix (1956); when his Ferrari crashed in the German Grand Prix; near Adanau, Germany...