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Standoff. Even George Halas was bitten by the spending bug. Owner-coach of the Chicago Bears, Halas has a reputation for penny pinching that goes back 45 years; in the old days, he used to plead bankruptcy every year when contract time rolled around. He also has a team that captured the N.F.L. championship in 1963-but won only five games this year. Yanking the rubber band off his bankroll, Halas shelled out $50,000 for Kansas Halfback Gale Sayers, then sent George Jr. around with a $100,000 bundle for Illinois' All-Everything linebacker, "Animal of the Year...
...never forgiven India for seizing its old colony of Goa in 1961. In honor of the Bom bay congress, Goa is exposing for 44 days of veneration its most famous relic, the mummified body of the 16th century Jesuit Missionary St. Francis Xavier-minus one toe that was bitten off by an overzealous worshiper in 1859 and part of one arm, which was shipped to Rome for veneration in 1615. So outraged was the government of Portugal by news of the papal visit that it forbade the country's newspapers and magazines to mention...
...generally admitted that Samarra and Butterfield 8 are brilliant, but they were done so long ago that they are no defense for their author, gnat-bitten by reviewers in middle age. What is not admitted is that A Rage to Live, Ten North Frederick and From the Terrace are excellent novels. From the Terrace. the best of the three, stands almost alone in U.S. fiction as a thoroughly successful study of a man reaching for the highest financial power. The novel is 897 pages long; it lacks drama and is built, like most lives, entirely of minutiae. It moves slowly...
...describing the bomb as weak, U.S. authorities at first released no figures, and the Weather Bureau, which traced the radioactive cloud, reported its directional progress only, making no comment on its intensity except to say that it was not strong enough to be at all dangerous. But in bomb-bitten Japan, where radiation watching is something of a national hobby, rooftop Geiger counters started clicking ominously. Scientists caught rain water to measure its activity, and jets brought samples down from the sky. About 30 hours after the explosion the radiation count at Niigata, 180 miles north of Tokyo, rose from...
...sacred garden, the desperate young warrior strips himself bare to the waist. He seizes a short sword, plunges it into his abdomen once. Twice. Three times. Four. He falls over the gory weapon. "Behead me!" he pleads, but before the last merciful blow is delivered he has bitten off his tongue...