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...harbor some poets in our midst, but for a long time now they have been complemented by trained newsmen. One of the first of that breed to join the magazine was Eben Roy Alexander, who came to TIME in 1939 as a veteran reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As managing editor from 1949 to 1960, he in a sense led TIME into its age of fully professional journalism. When "Alex" died last week, at 79, both old associates and younger staff members who know him only as a legend paid tribute to an extraordinary journalist and an extraordinary...
...addition, the 22.5 million Overseas Chinese are being used as Peking's secret weapons, Tass alleges. According to one dispatch, they are being deployed by Peking as a "fifth column to undermine security and public order in Burma, Malaysia and the Philippines." (Though most of the insurgents in Malaysia are ethnic Chinese, there is little evidence that they are acting under Peking's orders.) The Tokyo-Peking friendship treaty, signed last August to the dismay of Moscow, has been interpreted by Pravda as a diabolical device by China "to force Japan onto the path of its preparations...
...salmon stocks in North Atlantic waters. The government's Scottish Office, with headquarters in Edinburgh, agreed with the fishermen that the seal herd must be thinned out. It called on the Norwegians, armed with 7.62 mm Mauser rifles and 4-ft. pickax bludgeons known as hakapiks, to dispatch 900 mother seals and 1,700 fluffy white pups in the first phase of the culling program. Local hunters have been licensed to kill 3,200 more pups...
...same cruise, as have the novelist Salome Ottoban and her daughter. When Linnet's cheating lawyer (George Kennedy) hears of her marriage, his shady schemes are jeopardized and he sets off for Egypt to protect himself. Ridgeway's English lawyers are watching him, and they dispatch David Niven to the scene. Simultaneously, the Viennese doctor is trying to persuade Ridgeway not to go on trying to ruin his clinic, which has caused her friend to die, and the Marxist and Poirot are on the same boat. Small world...
Though not exciting, the Dodgers displayed some impressive offense, and, led by Steve Garvey's two homerun, four-RBI effort, got some strong long relief work by rookie Bob Welch to dispatch the Phils rather easily...