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Besieged by a crush of autograph hunters at a Paris swimming meet, ex-Olympic Champion and ex-Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller fainted dead away...
...wandered up, a crowd encircled me. One bespectacled youth poked a pugnacious finger in my collar and said: 'Will you tell your American friends that we reject the plans of murderer Truman and American imperialists to start another war so they can use cheap soldiers of India to crush Soviet democracy?' Breathlessly he spun out the usual cliches, and wound up: 'Nehru is a Fascist reactionary who smokes cigarettes with Churchill and offers British warmongers the sweet mangoes and sweet tongues of India...
Life jackets were dropped, lost or thrown aside in the crush and panic. Some passengers could not swim, others cringed inside the cabin in fear of the shark-infested sea. In six minutes the plane sank. A few survivors, who had scrambled out, reached the island. Others floated in the water until Coast Guard boats, guided by the eerie swaying light of plane-dropped flares, picked them up. Of the 81 aboard, 53 were lost, including Pilot Cockrill and the five infants, all but three of the 20 women...
...have his judgment, his courage and his silken poise failed him. A Conservative who reached the presidency because of a split in the Liberal Party, he has had to govern with a Liberal majority in the Congress and with a coalition cabinet. Ospina brushed off diehard Conservative pressure to crush the opposition by high-handed use of his powers. Last year, when enraged followers of assassinated Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliécer Gaitan sacked his capital, Ospina refused Liberal demands for his resignation. Though snipers peppered his Bogota office from nearby steeples and buildings, he sat imperturbably at his desk...
...Elevator. The next day newsmen and photographers packed the lobby of the office building at 2 Park Avenue. Jessup was already in his headquarters on the 23rd floor. Chauvel and Cadogan threaded their way through the crush and into the elevator. In Jessup's modest green and brown office, American, Briton and Frenchman had only a few minutes' wait. At 12:31 the door to Jessup's office was thrown open. There, nodding, was burly Yakov Malik, his smile the beaming equivalent of the Russian for "Hello...