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...between East and West. By week's end the possibility of a real explosion had made the U.S.'s allies so nervous that the U.S. reluctantly abandoned its long struggle to maintain pro-Western rule in Laos and started working instead to make the country a neutralized buffer zone...
Dalkowski's father, a vocational buffer in an electric-tool plant in New Britain, Conn, and an avocational baseball buff, trained Steve for the outfield. But the boy tried pitching in high school, quickly caught the strike-out bug. Says Dalkowski: "I didn't win, but when I got the ball over the plate, it was fun to watch them swing." Signed by the Baltimore Orioles after graduation in 1957, Steve joined a rookie farm club in Kingsport, Tenn. "I remember my record," he recalls, "because it was so even: 121 strike-outs and 129 walks...
...first months after Red China's savage suppression of last year's Tibetan revolt, flight was the order of the day. More than 18,000 Tibetan refugees, including the Dalai Lama, poured into India alone. Last week, from the tiny (18,000 sq. mi.) buffer state of Bhutan on Tibet's southern border, came reports that the mood in Tibet has changed dramatically. Far fewer Tibetans now seek to escape. Instead, they stand and fight...
...withstand the hours of high-speed driving in a racer's tiny cockpit. His experience has taught him every trick of handling the 250-h.p. Grand Prix cars. He can swing a car into a slide to kill speed, use a bank bordering on a turn, as a buffer to keep his rear wheels on the road. He won last year's Italian Grand Prix by "slipstreaming"-tailing a Ferrari so closely that the rival car acted as a windbreak, letting Moss conserve precious fuel and tires...
...envelope, puts it inside the second envelope, and drops it in a box in his plant for mailing to the party of his choice. Says Republican Henry Ford II: The middle-income worker must be urged to take a bigger part in politics "to provide a solid and wholesome buffer to extremes of either the right or the left and broaden the base of participation in politics...