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...declared publicly, was "rabble," and the local press angrily quoted him as calling Army Boss Mobutu a "bandit." In time, Dayal lost personal contact with all Congolese leaders, eventually withdrew to haughty isolation in his own elegant residence. When, after Lumumba's death, he seemed to lean over backward to favor Antoine Gizenga's Red-leaning Stanleyville regime, Dayal also lost the trust of the big Western nations...
Russia also was having acute satellite trouble in Albania, the tiny backward outpost in the Adriatic that has repudiated Soviet leadership as "revisionist" and sided with the tough Red Chinese. Last week the outside world learned that Albania's Communist leaders executed two of their own Foreign Office officials as spies-for Russia...
...mound. Pitcher Mike Hanes. 10, wound up and threw a soft, slow curve. As Barry turned to swing, the ball hit him on the chest. The youngster dropped his bat, staggered backward, collapsed in the arms of Umpire Al Millham. and died. Improbably, the mild impact had stopped Barry's heart. Pitcher Hanes collapsed in hysterics. But like so many Little League parents, grief-stricken Jack Babcock showed a stubborn concern for the game. "I hope this doesn't curtail Little League ball," said Babcock. "Barry wouldn't want that. He loved baseball more than anything...
Seldom had the West looked so foolish and frustrated as did the foreign ministers gathered in Geneva last week to settle the fate of backward little Laos...
...needs rather than by grades; a fourth-grade student may, for example, join mostly third-grade children for arithmetic if arithmetic gives him trouble, but study English with fifth-grade pupils if English is easy for him. Yet, on balance, no child is likely to be embarrassed as conspicuously backward or made self-conscious as conspicuously superior. The system has turned out so well that Carson City now insists on reservations weeks in advance from the scores of educators who want to come and observe...