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...Soviet Union's stranglehold on world sky-diving records slipped slightly when a four-man U.S. team, bailing out near Chandler, Ariz., broke Soviet marks for day and night group-precision jumping. In daylight, the U.S. parachutists landed an average of 13 ft. 7 in. from a target point on the ground; their nighttime average...
...House Committee chairmen agreed last night that the HSA probe should be turned over to a four-man committee under the sponsorship of the Student Council...
...about the corridors, dickering, discussing and listening to all sides of the unsettled argument over the succession to Dag Hammarskjold's vacant post of Secretary-General. The Soviet plan no longer encompassed merely a troika, a three-headed executive. Now Russian Delegate Valerian Zorin was talking about a four-man body-two neutralists (African and Asian), a Communist and a Westerner -each, presumably, with a veto over the others that would render the whole operation useless. Said one U.N. diplomat: "You could call them the four Marxist Brothers...
...four-man OAS inspection team last week reported on its brief June visit through the jails and files of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The 62-page report reflected the conflicting views of its authors. The three Latin American members favored a relatively clean bill of health to pave the way for readmission of the Dominican Republic into polite inter-American society. The U.S. pressed for a stronger report, condemning the Trujillos for their many past crimes, skeptical of their promises to reform...
Written in elegant Mishnaic Hebrew, the letters had an oddly contemporary ring. As in present-day Israel, all land belonged to the state, and one set of scrolls disclosed an intricate real estate deal in which a government administrator leased several plots to a four-man syndicate which, in turn, subleased the plots among themselves-probably to dodge taxes. A second lease involved a date grove controlled by a rich woman named Babata. When her daughter Shlomzion was married, Babata paid a dowry of 200 dinars. According to the marriage contract, signed in A.D. 133, the bride was guarded against...