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...right arm and leg since I was 80," chuckled Lord Beveridge, 83. "I see doctors everywhere, and don't pay a farthing." Economist Beveridge, who was celebrating the 20th anniversary of his famous report that helped spawn Britain's National Health Service, still cracks the dawn daily at 5:30 a.m., is now at work on a three-volume history of prices and wages in England, plans to go on writing and getting farthing-free medicare "long after...
With a bow to the classical unities, the entire action of Virginia Woolf takes place in a faculty couple's living room and runs continuously from 2 a.m. until dawn on a Sunday. (Someone must already have dubbed the play Long Night's Journey Into Day.) And with a bow to intellectualism, Albee has subtitled the three acts "Fun and Games," "Walpurgisnacht," and "The Exorcism...
...towns and villages in India's North East Frontier Agency were blacked out from dusk to dawn last week. At the front, an uneasy truce was maintained as Indian troops warily waited to see if the Red Chinese forces would keep their pledge to withdraw 12½ miles behind the lines they occupied on Nov. 7, 1959. But while the guns were silent, the diplomats were at work...
...Then, in line with Mao's second rule for terrorists, the Viet Cong promptly attacked the government's defensive outposts on the periphery of Zone D. Guns blazing, battalion-sized Red units simultaneously mauled three villages, inflicting severe casualties before disappearing into the surrounding rubber plantations at dawn's light...
...Overwhelming their competition at the Commonwealth Games, Australia's smooth-stroking swimmers were as hot as the searing sun that sent the temperature soaring to 103° in Perth's Perry Lakes Stadium. In two days the Aussies smashed three world records: Dawn Fraser lowered her own women's 110-yd. freestyle mark to 59.6 sec., and anchored Australia's 440-yd. relay team to a record 4 min. 11.1 sec. clocking; Murray Rose paced the men to a record 8 min. 13.5 sec. for the 880-yd. relay...