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...told, Nat Turner was five years in the writing. Styron worked in a small studio at his 13-acre estate in Roxbury, Conn., where he lives with his wife and four children. While the book was in progress, Negro Author James Baldwin paid him a five-month visit, and Styron acknowledges that "some of Jimmy's fiery, passionate intellect may have rubbed...
...steamed home for a well-earned five-month rest, the squadron left behind a handsome record. In 1,239 sorties, it had destroyed or damaged-among other targets-139 enemy barges and patrol boats, 86 trucks and three key bridges, and had knocked out one of North Viet Nam's most important thermal-power plants. Along the way, the squadron lost only two of its twelve planes. As Mandeville told his squadron when he took over early this year: "We don't need to blow our own horn-the results will show." And so they...
...turned out, the high school students did even more learning than the children they were hired to teach. According to a study conducted by Columbia University, a sampling of the 2,000 tutored youngsters advanced an average of six months in reading ability during one five-month period; their untutored classmates improved by only 3½ months. But 100 tutors who were tested-many of them below eighth-grade standards in reading skills-picked up an average of 3½ years in reading ability. Faced with the responsibility of helping younger children, teen-agers with a previous record of hostile...
...while it looked as if Boeing's medium-haul, three-jet 727, in service since 1964, might be grounded by Government edict. During a five-month period beginning in August 1965, there were four fatal 727 crashes, all of them during the final landing approach. But last week, reporting on one of the four disasters-an American Airlines 727 crash in Cincinnati that took 58 lives-the Civil Aeronautics Board blamed the accident on pilot error and cleared the aircraft altogether. The 727, said the CAB, has "no design deficiencies or unsatisfactory operating characteristics...
...truth that would bring down Ian Smith's white regime was expected to arrive when the tobacco crop came in-and the nation's tobacco farmers would find themselves unable to sell it. Smith had other ideas, however, and they emerged last week when the annual five-month tobacco auction opened in Salisbury...