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...expected to be less important than in the existing index, and housing and transportation relatively more so. With the first sniff of inflation in the air, a key question is whether the new index, with its heavier emphasis on services, will rise faster than the old one, which has crept up 1.2% annually since...
Early last week a handful of junior army and police officers crept into the white, bougainvillea-shrouded presidential mansion overlooking Libreville's humid harbor. The sleeping President was hauled from his bed with a revolver in his side, then found himself quickly spirited off to the Baraka military camp outside the capital. When Libreville awoke, the rebels had control of the airport, post office, radio station and government buildings. The coup committee announced that "Léon Mba and his acolytes" had been thrown out, named Aubame provisional Prime Minister, and looting got under...
Moments after midnight, 300 Viet Cong guerrillas crept through sugarcane fields toward a camp of U.S. and South Vietnamese Special Forces at Hiephoa, barely 20 miles west of Saigon. Ducking under watchtowers bristling with machine guns and floodlights, the Reds knifed a sentry, forded a three-foot-deep moat, snipped three barbed-wire fences, and slipped into the compound-evidently in collusion with a spy inside, who unlocked the gate. Then, while guerrillas outside opened up with a mortar barrage, the infiltrators attacked to the blast of a bugle...
...prosecution attorney was interrupted twice in his summation, an almost unheard of phenomenon, for the gross inaccuracies and distortions that had crept into his oration. In a tiny voice, probably unheard by the jury, the judge charged the twelve men. They retired at 10:10 a.m. to consider their verdict, but returned in 20 minutes with a request to see the jail. At noon they returned and were sent to lunch...
Except the Albatross. Her extruded aluminum foils lifted the hull several feet above the waves, her speed crept up to 32 m.p.h., and she went winging across the surface of Long Island Sound like the hydrodynamic sea bird she is. Then-shades of the Ancient Mariner!-the debut was dampened by another hard-luck story. Off Hewlett Point lay a disabled cabin cruiser with smoke pouring from its engine compartment. t was the Bobbilee II, owned by Investment Banker Robert Lehman, and aboard as Lehman's guests were Movie Mogul Samuel Goldwyn and his wife...