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Anxious to unload their embarrassing guest, Israeli authorities last week packed Convicted Soviet Spy Robert Soblen onto an El Al plane for a U.S.-bound trip via Athens and London. But as the plane approached London, Soblen stabbed himself in the wrist and stomach with a steak knife, forcing British authorities to take him on as a hospital patient. The delay that Soblen won by his dramatic suicide attempt immediately created a legal tangle. Though the Home Office insisted that Soblen was not legally in Britain, two barristers-one a Labor M.P.-obtained a writ of habeas corpus delaying...
Just Like War. Across Saskatchewan, 79 hospitals were left without doctors, and closed for all but first aid during the first two days of the strike. Typical was Nokomis Union Hospital, where patients were told they would have to be discharged. A housewife, Mrs. Al Nagy, found the scene "just like a war. People were standing in groups on all the street corners, talking about it, trying to think of something they could...
...Al Blaustein...
...record with a prodi gious leap of 27 ft. 3 in., and Vladimir Trusenev, who last month set a new discus record of 202 ft. 2½ in. But the U.S.'s Boston will be tough to beat at home. And so will the top U.S. discus thrower, Al Oerter, who was the first man to hurl the discus 200 ft.; at the A.A.U. championships, Oerter got off the best series ever managed by one man in one meet, fell short of Trusenev's record by just ½ in. As Russian Coach Gavril Korobkov said: "It would...
...putatively good writer whose work al ways contains a handful of the little sour plums she cultivates so well, she apparently hates to waste her time writing. She says just enough to make it to the other side of 100 pages-which is the book's biggest virtue...