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...plane touched down on the east-west runway at about 130 m.p.h., rolled 1,000 yds., then swerved suddenly to the right. There was a staccato burst of explosions as all four tires on the right landing gear blew out. The big jet skidded wildly across the field for another 300 yds. Then it struck a parked truck and smashed into the unyielding, 30-in.-high concrete shoulder of a jet taxiway still under construction. The tremendous impact ripped loose the engines and landing gear. Orange flames crackled along the plane's left side and swept toward the rear...
...Filming One, Two, Three, an East-West satire set in West Berlin and based on a comedy by the late Ferenc Molnar, Director Billy Wilder sent Horst Buchholz, who plays an East German motorcycle bum, past the Brandenburg Gate with a balloon on his exhaust pipe. It inflated, as the script ordered-displaying the words RUSSKI GO HOME. Out came a platoon of People's Police, plus a Russian official who was not amused. Retreating from the row that followed, Wilder moved to Munich, where he is finishing the film beside an enormous reproduction of the Brandenburg Gate...
...mosquitoes, mosquitoes, mosquitoes. This swamp offers some advantages-you can't be flanked. But it makes no difference; you can be stopped easily enough." Nevertheless, the plan was to cut Cuba in two by stabbing quickly northward along the road and the railroad bed to the main east-west highway, and on to the northern coast...
...hopeless situation. I guess should be done about it." St. Lawrence hock- George Menard after his humiliating 12-2 defeat by in the final game of the tournament here last month. , whose team lost to Michi-, 13 to 3, in the same last year, was referring annual East-West collegiate showdown--a one-sided the statistics show...
...neutralist. Said he: "Inspired by the ideals of democracy, we are born members of the free world . . . Brazil's ideological position is Western and will not change." What he does favor, Janio emphasized, is an independent Brazilian voice in world affairs and increased friendship with Communist nations. "The East-West conflict," he said, "tends increasingly to restrict itself to ideological attitudes. We have faith in ours, and we wish no ill to people who differ...