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...Redondo Beach barbecues. The diet was bananas, papayas and pineapples; goats, chickens and an occasional antelope. Though missionaries from the Evangelical Covenant network occasionally visited back and forth, amusement was usually family style: games of Scrabble, hymn singing, reading. The kids raised cats and dogs; Wayne built a monkey cage. It was hardly the usual Schweitzer-at-Lambarene scene. Even when the rebels showed up, it was far from dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Congo Massacre | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

Fadden also proposed a rule change: outlaw the high-arm block. A blocker can ram his forearm or elbow into an opponent's face despite the protection of the mask. Cage masks which leave no opening wide enough for an elbow are fine for linemen, but backs, who need more visibility, are forced to use the conventional double or single bar variety. If high-arm blocking were illegal, Fadden believes that there would be no need for the face mask...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football's Occupational Hazard | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

Awori represented Uganda in the Tokyo Olympics in October and reported to his first Briggs Cage workout last month in excellent condition and eager to work. McCurdy will use him in the hurdles, the broad jump, and the dash, and Aggrey has said he would like to try the mile relay...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Track Team May Be Best in East; Pole Vault Looms as Only Pitfall | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...leaguers, Lowell Birrell (who embezzled $14 million), Edward Gilbert (about $2,000,000) and Earl Belle ($800,000) have all voluntarily returned to the U.S. to face the music, although they had done well enough in Brazil as entrepreneurs or "consultants." Only major operator who remains is Ben-Jack Cage, wanted for embezzling $100,000 from his Texas insurance company. In Brazil he made his mark trying to detonate a land boom in the remote Mato Grosso, unloading 350-per-acre land for $2 to $10 an acre. Now it appears that he and anyone else the U.S. wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Where the Crooks Can't Go | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...giraffe's neck so long?" "Why is a lion's head so big?" (Answers: "Because the mountain won't go over the rabbit." "So he can reach the ground to eat the grass." "So he can't stick it between the bars of his cage.") For each wrong reply, the guide gets to whack the hunter on the rump with a willow branch. Smart Westerners can always retaliate with a few Red riddles of their own. One that is currently bouncing around the satellite circuit asks: "What did Aleksei Adzhubei learn when his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Satellites: Marxmen All | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

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