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Here's a daily double:
1) VIDEO SPECIAL: With foot-and-mouth fear spiraling, we dug up this 1950s newsreel report on an outbreak of the disease in central Canada (you'll need Real Player to view this gem). Once again, when faced with a dirty task, just call in the Mounties.
2) We're huge NASCAR fans here at TSG--stock car racing just appeals to our outlaw, anti-authoritarian nature. So imagine our dismay when we discovered that late NASCAR founder William France, Sr. was in bed with the man, specifically the FBI. Despite a 1946 bust for conspiring to violate wartime rationing laws, the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the bureau's Jacksonville field office once sought to have FBI headquarters approve France as a confidential "SAC contact" since his business connections were of great value to Florida agents. While these FBI memos, released pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, do not record HQ's final decision, it's unlikely that France's prized "higher echelon" contacts went untapped. (5 pages)
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