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...Gunther's herculean capacity for hard work, his shrewd journalistic intuition, the same flair for intimate background stories about nations and their leaders; and he is in on every major event from Austria's abortive 1931 attempt to form a customs union with Germany to its four-day civil war in February 1934, when the fascist Heitnwehr militia crushed the socialists. Despite Gunther's insistence that all his characters are imaginary, readers are sure to be chewing for some time over the strong resemblances between Mason Jarrett's colleagues and Gunther's own. What...
Actor James Garner and Comedian Pat Harrington Jr. introduce the four-day Carling World Golf Championship and interview some of the foreign competitors, including Nationalist China's Chen Ching-Po, New Zealand's Bob Charles, Brazil's Mario Gonzales...
...found another driver who had taken a "German businessman" across the border on a rush trip to Remagen-the town where Zech-Nenntwich owns a villa. Münch and Heggemann boldly rang the villa's doorbell and demanded to see Zech-Nenntwich. In a four-day talk marathon, the pair finally persuaded him to surrender to the police, then sped to Hamburg to turn out a 14-page exclusive spread that was certain to help Stern (circulation...
...four-day period last week, terrorists in Caracas ambushed three policemen walking their beats, machine-gunned them to death; another cop was shot as he bicycled home from duty. What the F.A.L.N. was doing out in the countryside worried officials even more. Guerrilla bands have suddenly appeared in eight of Venezuela's 20 states. Last week, in a dozen skirmishes, the F.A.L.N. blew up an important highway bridge, attacked police patrols and national-guard posts, killing one and wounding two government...
Throughout his four-day visit, Kennedy stressed the traditional and blood ties between Poland and the U.S., asking for help in building the "bridges of reconciliation" between eastern and western Europe. The spontaneous approval roared back by the crowds predictably ruffled official Polish feelings. At a dinner given by Ambassador Cabot, Deputy Foreign Minister Josef Winiewicz proposed a toast reminding Kennedy of "the strict political realism of our links with Socialism and with the Soviet Union...