¶ Crashing through fences and lurching over jumps like the clumsy 20-to-1 shot it was, Mrs. Geoffrey Kohn's big chestnut gelding Sundew managed to keep its footing while 24 of the 35 starters in Britain's Grand National Steeplechase sprawled on the turf, won easily by eight lengths from Wyndburgh (25-to-1).
¶ Leaping from a jet bomber at night at an altitude of 41,000 ft. (and a temperature of 62° F), three Czech parachutists dropped for more than three minutes before they opened their chutes at less than 3,000 ft. and landed on a floodlit...
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