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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2 -Brilliant passing by Stanford's Bob Garrett and lightning touchdown runs by Kansas State's Veryl Switzer sparked the West All-Stars to a 31-7 upset victory over the East today in the twenty-ninth annual Shrine charity football game.
Paul Cranis of Brooklyn became the junior eastern indoor tennis champion yesterday when he defeated George Mandel, Astoria, top-seeded player, in the final round at the 102d Engineers Armory.
This week the Eisenhower Administration is going into its second -- and testing -- year. Last week the President was deeply immersed in the preparations for the central role he will play as the Second Session of the Eighty-third Congress gets under way.
LAKE PLACID, N. Y., Jan. 2 -- Art Devlin of Lake Placid. Keith Wegeman of Camp Hale, Col., and Art Tokle of Chicago today won the right to represent the United States in the world ski jumping championships to be held next month in Sweden.
Foreign Min repts 'active' talks weighed with Burma, Indonesia and PI; Japan seen reconsidering stand against reparations in cash
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]