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...Bella has set up a training camp for 1,000 Angolan guerrillas who hope to drive the Portuguese colonialists from their homeland, and at a foreign ministers' conference in Dakar last week, he rousingly urged the delegates to descend on the U.N. in mass for a last-ditch fight against Portugal and South Africa...
Last week's Le Mans was true to tradition. Brazil's Bino Heins, 28, was killed when his French-built Alpine skidded on an oil slick, clipped a fence pole, spun into a ditch, and burst into flames. The fastest car in the race, a prototype 4.9-liter Maserati, led for the first two hours (averaging about 120 m.p.h.), then pulled into the pits, and was not seen again. The U.S.'s Phil Hill, driving an Aston Martin, topped a hummock at 150 m.p.h. to find a car rolling over and over directly in front...
...Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-The program examines labor-management relations in the light of last-ditch attempts to avoid a nationwide railway strike...
Inside the Egg. The talks actually had broken down, when West Germany's Ludwig Erhard devised the last-ditch compromise that proved acceptable to John F. Kennedy. It calls for both sides to make equal, across-the-board percentage reductions, as proposed by the U.S.-though they will probably fall far short of the ideal 50% envisaged by Washington. In return, the U.S. agreed in principle to make drastic cuts in the highest tariff categories. Since the fine print will not actually be negotiated until May 1964, some U.S. and British officials were fearful, as one put it. that...
...techniques of the old masters to the social misery of the anarchic Weimar Republic. With Hitler's rise, Dix was ousted from his professorship in art at the Academy of Art in Dresden, forbidden to paint, finally pressed into the potbellied Volks-sturm, a sort of last-ditch militia. He was captured by the French while snoozing in the sun one spring afternoon...