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...Fantastic?" Leader of the band was 32-year-old Oliviu Beldeanu, a bearded six-footer who had passed his time in prison carving religious images. Testifying for almost two solid days, Beldeanu explained that he and his comrades had joined Rumania's underground, "The Men of the Forest," following the execution or imprisonment of their parents by the Communists. Fleeing west in 1949, they had been embittered by Western indifference to Rumania's plight. "I wanted to show the world that legations of Eastern countries are spy centers," said Beldeanu...
...happened, Middlecoff had a fairly cool time of it. Limping on his game left leg, grim Ben Hogan, 43, cracked on the next-to-last green. Fidgeting with nervousness as he stood within grasping distance of his fifth Open title, Ben missed a three-footer, finished a stroke back at 282. Then the only other men Middlecoff had to worry about, Julius Boros of Southern Pines, N.C. and Ted Kroll of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., put themselves out. Middlecoff heard from a TV announcer that Kroll had flubbed his last chance on the 16th. Middlecoff grinned into a camera and told...
William Ramsey Laird III, West Virginia's new Senator, is a husky six-footer with prematurely grey hair and a leaning toward liberalism, "if liberal means one who is for the common good." At 39 he is the third youngest Senator (younger: Louisiana's Long, 37; Massachusetts' Kennedy...
When the returns came in late election night, Greece's handsome Premier Constantine Karamanlis was tired, unshaven, untalkative. "We're dog tired," said his pretty young (28) wife, leaning against her husband's broad shoulder. For six weeks six-footer Karamanlis had tramped and traveled from snow-choked passes in Macedonia to sun-washed villages in the Peloponnesus to defend his pro-Western policy against the coalition formed against him by three disgruntled ex-Premiers in league with the remnant of the outlawed Communist Party. "I stand alone. I am one against all," he proclaimed defiantly...
...came home Patterson promptly turned pro, with D'Amato as his manager. He was sent to Trainer Dan Florio at Stillman's Gym for advanced instruction. Today, at 21, Patterson is known as a "fellow who will leave you for dead. He is a good-looking six-footer with lean hips, long arms and broad shoulders powered by slabs of smooth muscle ... he fights with the violent gracefulness of a large cat hunting its dinner. He is a rarity-a good boxer with a knockout in either fist . . . He is hard to hit, but he has been clobbered...