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Best Friend. In Bradford-on-Avon, England, Thomas Musty complained that when he offered a biscuit to the dog that had bitten him the previous day, the dog ate the biscuit and bit him again...
...polls the people had recorded a smashing defiance of Communism (TIME, Dec. 13). Colonel Frank Howley, the hard-bitten commander of the city's U.S. sector, welcomed West Berliners to "a place in the free world of men and women"-but warned them that further sacrifices were in store. In a formal statement from Washington, the State Department said: "The Berlin population has . . . demonstrated a type of civic courage which has won for it the admiration of the democratic peoples of the world...
Last fortnight, after an unidentified plane buzzed his mosquito-bitten border towns, the dictator ordered his armed AT6 trainers to patrol the Costa Rican border, to shoot down intruders on sight. "I will permit no more violations of the national territory," he thundered. Just in case the Legion should make Honduras the road to Nicaragua, Tacho deployed 500 National Guardsmen along his northern frontier, sent 200 right into Honduras to help his friend Carias...
...story, a glorified opera for horses, which no one in his right mind would grace with the name plot, is labyrinthine in its complexity. It concerns a hard-bitten young army officer who travels west under sealed orders to trace a pair of murders. He can never quite put his finger on the killers, so he shoots a dozen extras just to make sure. Sandwiched in between the first and the last shot are a vicious flat fight, a barn-burning, and the seduction of a bosomy young woman at the almost incredible range of thirty feet. There is also...
...earliest and best paintings on show was Edward Savage's formal portrait of Commodore Abraham Whipple, the hard-bitten New Englander who won the first sea battle of the Revolution, off Jamestown, R.I. and later snatched eight ships by stealth from a British convoy of 150. Savage's Whipple, magnificently bedecked for the occasion in a scarlet, gold-braided waistcoat and cocked hat, looked duck-footed, paunchy, and tough as a saltwater Punch...