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As a keel-wetter for last week's race, a 300-yd. water slalom was run off at Salida. Its course, laid out by Experts Bock and Seidel, was marked by a dozen sets of red and green poles. Boats had to pass the poles to right or left...
It was, as the briefing officer said, "a day worth drooling over," a fine day for hunting MIGs. With the howl of a tornado, four F-86 Sabre jets roared up from the Korean airfield and headed north for MIG Alley. For half an hour they climbed steadily, timing their...
Twenty minutes before the bell signaled the convening of the Senate, ailing Bob Taft, supporting himself on crutches, entered the Senate chamber and swung heavily down the center aisle to his front-row seat. Acting Majority Leader William Knowland was there, briefing a cluster of reporters on the day'...
Kinsey's timetable, and his elaborate briefing sessions in Bloomington, were to make sure that his findings would be presented as accurately as possible in the lay press. Not necessarily by coincidence, Kinsey was also creating the greatest fanfare in publishing history for a book that was not yet...
Whores or Godmothers. Up and down Germany, he travels in his station wagon, and in each town the pattern is the same. With from one to three assistants, he begins by pasting up posters, tacking streamers to buildings, furnishing the local movie house with slides advertising his talks. Then he...