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...quality of competition at the quadrennial Pan-American games rarely requires U.S. athletes to do anything more exhausting than show up - except when it comes to baseball. To Latin Amer icans, baseball is a passion, not just a pastime, as the U.S. team learned last week at Winnipeg when it lost its very first game 4-3, and to Cuba at that. But by week's end the embarrassment was eased by the brilliant performances of U.S. swimmers-not so much be cause they won practically everything in sight (nine of eleven events), but because they demolished three world...
...Family of Man." The nation he sang was the bustling, brawling Amer ica of his Midwestern youth, a land of laborers, slaughterhouses and prairies...
...Variety, drew $32 million in 1965-66 and have never topped $40 million - pulled in $43.6 million this season. That does not count one other extension of the road. London this month is showing no fewer than seven U.S. imports, from Hello Dolly! to The Odd Couple, and Amer ica Hurrah will open there in August...
Nasser's generals made convenient scapegoats for him. He dismissed eleven of them, including the commanders of his army, navy and air force and Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, his lifelong friend, brother-in-law and deputy commander-in-chief. Of course, the generals had not performed so brilliantly. They had convinced Nasser that Egyptian tanks could defeat the Israelis in two days. Boasted one dapper general just before the fighting broke out: "Montgomery was a good general, but a little cautious. Now as for me, I say attack, attack and again attack." He was last seen...
Chief of Staff General Amer Khammash became so discouraged after a useless visit to Cairo that he cried...