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...stage his official name was "No. 65." because the National Aeronautics and Space Administration did not want him to achieve too much public personality, just in case he did not return alive. His name while in training at the Air Force's Holloman Aeromedical Field Laboratory had been Chop Chop Chang. Only if he survived his space trip would he be permitted to use the appealing name "Ham," derived from the initials of his training place...
...concept of government does not exist; their only political guideposts are myth and magic. Head-hunting and cannibalism are still practiced in some areas. Some Papuan natives wear no clothes save for string, have no dishes or cooking utensils. They consider death the action of a wizard, often chop off the ends of their fingers as a sign of mourning...
...take over. He quickly commandeered a school building in which all the 2,000 whites of the province were offered haven and surrounded it with his troops. But several Belgians, in the Stanleyville jail on other charges, already were in Salumu's hands if he chose to chop heads; and, of course, the hapless, half-blind Alphonse Songolo remained a hostage...
Faced with government-owned Trans-Canada's decision, privately owned Canadian Pacific had no choice except to go along. Neither have the U.S. lines-including American, Eastern and United-that compete with TCA on routes between the two countries. Though U.S. carriers complain that TCA can chop fares only because it has government support, U.S. lines will probably have to follow suit to stay competitive (See BUSINESS). Bound to suffer: Canada's railroads, which already lose money on their cross-continent runs (one-way tourist fare, including a berth but no meals or extras: $115.40). TCA Boss McGregor...
After driving 2,000 miles across Russia from Leningrad to Uzhgorod, they tried to cross the border into Czechoslovakia at Chop. There, Russian border police told them that they were in an area closed to tourists. After spotting a camera, guards seized Kaminsky's films and had them developed. They showed pictures of radar installations, military work gangs, radio antennas, railroad stations, airfields and heavy industrial installations, along with a notebook and map minutely keying the location of each picture. Kaminsky's explanation: he planned to write a book on the theme, "How Russians talk about peace...