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...heaviest air action took place high over the Golan Heights, where a hunting pack of Israeli Mirage 111-Cs collided with a covey of Syrian MIG-21s. It was the biggest air victory since the 1967 war. Israel claimed seven Syrian jets were knocked down, while Syria admitted losing three MIGs but said four Israeli Mirages were bagged. There were other air battles as well; one a brief fracas near the southern tip of Sinai in which, according to Israel, two Egyptian MIG-21s were downed. The rain of Arab aircraft, in fact, stirred a fresh upsurge of cockiness...
Banging Plates. If the conference posed problems for the Soviet leaders, they were certainly putting up a breezy and self-confident front. Attired in a natty gray single-breasted suit and a red tie, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev led a covey of Politburo members on a four-hour tour of Automation 69, an international exhibit of new electronic equipment that is being held in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. In a jovial mood, Brezhnev singled out pretty girls for handshakes, embraced Communist exhibitors with Russian bear hugs, and chatted amiably at Western stands. Eying the new equipment at the French...
...McCartney, 26, last of the bachelor Beatles; and Linda Eastman, 27, honey-blonde American photographer and sister of Beatles Lawyer John Eastman, who met Paul at a news conference in Manhattan ten months ago; she for the second time; in a civil ceremony in London, enlivened somewhat by a covey of wounded birds wailing their anguish from behind a police cordon...
...dead. Among other vivid manifestations, he has for the past 14 months been one of the leading characters in Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin's best-selling chiller about the powers of darkness at work in a Manhattan apartment building. Now Old Nick, along with a covey of attendant diabolists, is making Rosemary's life miserable in a film version by Polish Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion). Even readers of the book (2,300,000 copies) who know how Baby comes out are in for a pleasant surprise: the very real acting ability...
James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre of Los Angeles, who has had more than his share of troubles with unruly young priests, is currently at odds with a covey of nuns: his city's Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...