51.   Bush spoke from the Oval Office just hours after bouncing between Florida and air bases in Louisiana and Nebraska for security reasons.

52.   Bryan Trottier looked so comfortable on the ice just hours before the opening of his first Stanley Cup finals game as an assistant coach.

53.   Buzaglo said the operation was performed at a pathological institute just hours after he and his wife signed a form denying the army permission to operate on the body.

54.   Carjackers shot and killed a South African marathon runner just hours before he was to depart for the London Marathon, a local newspaper reported Saturday.

55.   Clinton was informed of the crash just hours before he was to travel to Norway for Middle East peace talks.

56.   Darden said an arrangement had been worked out to tell jurors what Mrs. Brown would have said about her last communications with her daughter just hours before the murders.

57.   Conservative Prime Minister John Howard visited Santamaria on his deathbed just hours before he died Tuesday.

58.   Earlier this month, the launch was postponed after a loading accident just hours before the balloon was scheduled to lift off.

59.   Estermann had been named commander of the guards just hours before his death.

60.   Gustavo Kuerten was bounced out of the Australian Open just hours after Andre Agassi and Serena Williams pulled out Monday on a tumultuous opening morning at the Australian Open.