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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Dan Briggs (Steven Hill) heads the four-man Impossible Mission Force. This week, with the help of a safe cracker (Wally Cox), they smuggle two nuclear warheads out of a Latin American dictator's heavily guarded vault. Premiere...
Finally there was Sin Kim Dan, a delicate little North Korean lass who broke the women's records at both 400 meters and 800 meters two years ago; some time later, an overjoyed elderly gentleman in South Korea recognized Sin as the son he had lost in the war. At last week's European track-and-field championships in Budapest, I.A.A.F. officials for the first time ordered all lady contestants to undergo a physical examination to prove that they were, in fact, ladies...
...Losers. There are some exceptions to the success story. The 7¾-mile Chicago Skyway has been unable to meet its interest payments on time; the free, federally sponsored Dan Ryan Expressway runs a parallel route, so Chicago Skyway traffic is about half of what was estimated. In West Virginia, a turnpike from Charleston (pop. 85,000) to Princeton (pop. 20,000 and not to be confused with Princeton, N.J.) runs "from nowhere to nowhere," according to critics. The route is losing money because the links with Interstate 64 and Interstate 77 will not be completed until approximately...
...Japanese wife, were willing to talk to Kraar as they were to talk with Senior Editor Edward Hughes when he toured Indonesia last April. Kraar, who has spent eleven weeks in Indonesia since September, was joined by Frank McCulloch, chief of the Hong Kong bureau, and Singapore-based Stringer Dan Coggin. In a six-week, 6,000-mile swing, Coggin covered Java, Bali, Sumatra and Sulawesi. The correspondents' massive reports furnished the material for Writer John Blashill's story...
Beebe heeded his master's voice. Pre-race speed trials proved that the Fords were far faster than the three lighter but less powerful (by 70 h.p.) P3 prototypes entered by Ferrari. California's Dan Gurney set an unofficial lap record of 142.9 m.p.h. in a Mark II, and Fords won the first four places on the starting grid. That made it easy for Beebe. Start in front, he ordered his drivers, stay in front, force the Ferraris to press, and wait for them to break down. It worked. Pouring on the gas, nudging 210 m.p.h...