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P: 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).

P: Leaping from a jet bomber at night at an altitude of 41,000 ft. (and a temperature of --62DEG 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 airfield. Proudly they claimed a new night group-jumping mark. Previous record holders: Russian chutists who dropped from 36,000 ft., fell free for 34,000 ft.

P: "Hurry up, Pascual, it's raining," home-town rooters shouted at Argentina's World Champion Flyweight Pascual Perez just before his fight with Welshman Dai Dower in Buenos Aires. Pascual obliged. In the first round, he hung on to his title by hanging a right cross on Dower's chin and decking the challenger with ease.

P: Surveying 1956 track records, the International Amateur Athletic Federation approved some impressive achievements. Among the new world record holders: Air Force Lieut. Parry O'Brien with a 63 ft. 1 3/4 in. shot put, Duke's Dave Sime with 20-sec. 200-meter dash.

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