St Xavier High School - X Ray Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Bobby Morrow leads teammates Andy Stanfield and Thane Baker to the wire to win the 200 meter dash and his second gold medal in the Olympic Games at Melbourne, Australia. Olympic Games The 1956 United States Olympic team put on a hymen- dous exhibition of athletic prowess despite the fact that the Russian team gave the Americans their first beating since 1936 in the overall mathematics of the Olympic Games. Led by triple-winner Bobby Morrow, the American track team smashed almost every Olympic record in the track and field events. With Morrow run- ning wild in the 100 and 200 meter dashes; Charlie Dumas leaping like a kangaroo in the high jump; Parry OtBrien putting the shot over 60 feet; and ETyld- reliablett Bob Richards coming through in the pole- vault; the U. S. track team gave a performance that has never been equalled in the history of the Olympic Games.

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10 A pillar of smoke pours from a blazing fuel storage installation at Port Said, Egypt, after a bombing raid by British carrier planes. Suez Canal Issue In the middle of November, 1956, England, France, and Israel in- vaded Egypt. Their purpose was to overthrow the Nasser headed government which had troubled them for many months. England and France had suffered oil losses as a result of Nasser s seizure of the Suez Canal. Israelhs borders had been attacked many times in the course of 1956. Battle raged on land and sea and in the air for eight long days as the danger of a third World War threatened ominously. The tense international situation was finally eased when United Nations SecretaryeGeneral Dag Hammarskjold announced that a cease-fire had been effected. The Suez Canal, the main reason for the invasion, was now rendered useless for many months because of the numerous sunken ships blocking the passage of other vessels. The gunhre had ceased, but the unpleasant aftermath would remain with the world for a long time. British front line troops watch as a convoy of United Nations cars pass along a highway par- alleling the Suez Canal.

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Three huge B-52 Stratofortresses are lined up at March Air Force Base after completing their history-making, nonstop fiight around the world. Record F light A few months ago, the United States took a big step towards encouraging world peace when it posed a formidable threat against alien nations. On Friday, January 18, it announced that three B-52 Strato- fortresses had landed at March Air Force Base in California after completing the first nonstop jet flight around the world. In the words of the commander of the Strategic Air Command, the flight was a ttdemonstration of the SAC global cap- abilities to strike any target on the face of the earth? The record hight 0f the threeth planes, which conducted a simulated nuclear bomb drop at roughly the half-way point, took approximately 45 hours and 10 min- utes, breaking the previous record of 94 hours set by an Air Force propellor- driven plane eight years ago. Three mid- air refuelings by Air Force aerial tankers were necessary to enable the planes to complete their 24,000 mile globe-circling hight.