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...rifles, machine guns and mortars, U.S. 105-and 155-mm. howitzers and two airfields big enough for transports, but not for jets. Quemoy's peasants are a stoical lot who sit outside their baked-mud huts in the evenings, slapping at clouds of mosquitoes-and ready to dive for slit trenches if the Communist artillery opens...
Relatively new as an excuse for international competition, parachute jumping is too full of spine-jerking thrills ever to become a popular pastime. But the careful jumpers in Burgundy last week seemed set on proving that a dive into empty air need be no more dangerous than a snappy game of table tennis...
Died. Navy Captain William J. ("Gus") Widhelm, 45, whose daring, happy-go-lucky exploits as a World War II dive-bomber squadron commander made him a flying legend, earned him two citations for the Navy Cross; in a training-plane crash; near Corpus Christi, Texas...
...recent pictures, gives the impression of a man consciously restraining an enormous talent in order to give his partner a chance, but Jerry, for a change, has done a little work on his part. He has a real wingding with Sheree North in a jive dive and some nice nonsense of drinking champagne through a stethoscope. Best bit: Jerry, hung over and feeling awful, catches the boiled eye of his basset hound, who looks worse; with a groan, Jerry gives the dog his own ice pack...
...great beds of kelp that fringe the shores of the North Pacific, where they lead an easy and highly specialized life, floating much of the time on their backs with their forearms folded over their chests. Whenever they feel hungry, all they need do is roll over and dive to the bottom for sea urchins. They bring the sea urchins to the surface, lay them out on their chests and eat them at leisure, just as if they were sitting at a well-stocked dining-room table...