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Then Jim Bailey got up on his toes, dug in and began to do his job. He caught Delany, crept up on Landy. Closer than he ever expected to be to the world's best, Bailey decided to boost his countryman into an extra-fast final sprint. "I reached out and batted John on the backside and said, 'Go!' His foot came up against mine, and he wobbled a bit." Right then, for the first time, Bailey decided he had a chance...
From outside came the sound of a scuffled foot. The door burst in with a crash; the lights went out. It was the fedayeen (self-sacrificers), members of specially trained Arab assassin squads, who had crept north from the Egyptian-held Gaza strip. Submachine guns thundered in the room, and ten-year-olds went down in windrows. Three boys and a teacher died almost instantly; three others fell badly wounded. Others jumped out of windows, took shelter in a ditch. The killers fled. It was minutes before a teacher broke open the lock on the school telephone and called police...
...last week, soon after dawn, civil guards crept up on a straw-roofed hut. Inside were Ba Cut and six of his top lieutenants. Ba Cut, his hair now grown down to his waist, surrendered meekly. With the Binh Xuyen destroyed, the Cao Daoists divided, and Hoa Hao's Ba Cut captured, Premier Diem had eliminated the last of the rebellious warlords in his young republic...
...spring crept up on the entertainment world, lovebirds, young and middle-agish. began to warble of making nests, although their fluty chirps were all but drowned out by the quasi-romantic uproar emanating from the welter of Kelly-Rainier prenuptial rites (see PRESS). Italy's limpid-eyed Cinemorsel Marisa Pavan, 23, an Oscar nominee for her supporting role in The Rose Tattoo, was going to marry France's dashing Cinemale Jean Pierre Aumont this summer; she thought he was "about 42" (he is 46), pooh-poohed his Riviera trysts with Grace Kelly as "just a publicity stunt...
...anthropological circles. Marston soon found a second bone (left parietal) which fitted the first bone perfectly. The two bones were enough to give some idea of an extremely ancient kind of man who lived along the Thames about 250,000 years ago, before the last of the great glaciers crept over England...