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...epically inefficient tyranny that ruled Russia, or by the equally inefficient stirring against it. Vladimir and his older brother Alexander had an idyllic childhood. They swam in the Volga, hunted mushrooms in the birch woods, went ice skating and sleighing during the long winters. In the evenings, they bent over chessboards, sang around the piano, or played games invented by Vladimir with rules that he changed according to his whim. It was a habit he never lost...
...passage of Goulart's broad and sweeping social and economic "reforms" (TIME, April 3). Far from cracking down on the mutineers for insubordination, Goulart's leftist Navy Minister gave them all weekend passes and full pardons. Newspapers, middle-road and right-wing politicians sensed that Goulart was bent on the swift formation of a socialist regime, and began a clamor of public protest...
There will, however, be some interest in the outcome of the number one match; Harvard's Frank Ripley meets the Engineers" Bent Aasnes a tall Norwegian who was rated the third-best collegiate player in New England last year. In last year's M.I.T.-Harvard match, Aasnes dueled the Crimson's top player, Paul Sullivan, for two hours before losing...
...That night Mrs. Johnnie Mae Chappell, a Negro housewife with nine children, was walking along U.S. Highway 1 outside Jacksonville, her arms laden with grocery sacks. She dropped her purse, and as she bent to retrieve it, a car roared by; shots rang out, and Mrs. Chappell fell dead. Carlos Gonzales, standing outside a nearby bar, was shot in the head at the same time. Before dawn, a dozen buildings were fire-bombed by rampaging Negro youths, and cops found themselves using a new emergency radio call: "516," meaning "juveniles with incendiaries...
...Cover) My mind is bent to tell of bodies...