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...busboy. Late last year he spent time in a psychiatric ward; later, Cadon raided the Chemstrand Corp.'s Empire State Building offices and smeared display posters with black paint in protest against a new fiber that, he said, had been named "Cadon'' without his permission. Fortnight ago, Cadon left his German-born wife in New York, next appeared aboard Pan Am's Flight 501 as it left Mexico City on its biweekly flight through Central America to Panama...
...overwhelming approval of President Kennedy's cold war television speech last fortnight, the U.S. was arming surely for any trouble ahead. As the Congress went swiftly to work on emergency measures, the nation's confidence grew, too, with the realization that the real Berlin problem was the civic unrest and economic weakness of Communist East Germany-and that the real discomfiture was the Russians', Despite increasing surveillance by Dictator Walter Ulbricht's Volkspolizei, refugees from East Germany crossed into West Berlin last week at the rate of 1,000 a day; Ulbricht himself flew...
...freedom under ousted Premier John M. Chang, are thoroughly cowed. Hard put to scrape up news that will not offend the tough, jaunty officers who run the country, they dutifully print government handouts verbatim, sometimes run ads two or three times, at no extra charge, simply to fill space. Fortnight ago, when the respected Hankook Ilbo indiscreetly printed a telegram criticizing retired U.S. General James A. Van Fleet's visit at the junta's invitation (TIME, July 28), it was ordered to run off the rest of the edition with the story blacked...
...year-old outdoor broad jumping record of 26 ft., 8¼ in. Then, in rapid succession, he shattered Owens' 24-year-old Olympic mark, became the first man ever to leap 26 ft. indoors (where the runways are shorter) and the only one to jump 27 ft. outdoors. Fortnight ago, in Moscow, Boston jumped 27 ft, 1¾ in. to set a new world record for the third time in eleven months...
Handicapping is no job for a sensitive man. Owners complain bitterly about "unfair" weights, but Trotter shrugs off such criticism with the impassivity of a baseball umpire. Fortnight ago, when he assigned 136 lbs.-heaviest handicap of his career-to the speedy, four-year-old gelding, Kelso, in the $112,800 Brooklyn Handicap, Trotter said calmly: "I expect complaints." None came-although Kelso had to spurt from behind to eke out a narrow, 1¼-length victory. "He's one of the great ones," said Handicapper Trotter after the race. "No question about it." Then Trotter added: "Of course...