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...proudly owned up to the attack. "We do not deny our acts, " they boasted. "We are hitting the enemy where we find him." In all, they injured three Americans, one Briton and eleven Greeks-one of whom, a 2½-year-old boy, died after a half-dollar-sized fragment was removed from his brain...
...ideas about interior design. The book shows how today's "with it" people live in Europe and the U.S. They subdivide interior space into tricky levels. They love mirrors and blazing primary colors. Their art works are random-a bolt of Persian cloth, a chrome lamp, a billboard fragment, a lute. Does all this glitter mean anything more than an egotist's smile? Author Barbara Plumb, editor of the Home section of the New York Times Magazine, chats tersely about each dwelling, but wisely leaves conclusions to the reader...
...drawing was reproduced, carefully shaded, to show that the very hairs of his head were all numbered. No uninformed person looking at its carefully lined face and wistful eyes would imagine for a moment that this was the portrait of a thighbone; or of a few teeth and a fragment of a cranium...
...miles west of Kenya's Lake Rudolf, Harvard Paleontologist Bryan Patterson discovered the fragment of a jaw that he reckons is 5,000,000 years old. In roughly the same area, the University of London's William Bishop found a lone primate tooth that may be several million years older. Most tantalizing of all, jaws and teeth dating back 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 years have been uncovered in Southern Europe and mainland China...
...Swedish Major Bo Roland Plane, one of the 92 United Nations observers stationed along the canal, became the second U.N. officer to die since the outbreak of hostilities 25 months ago; an earlier death occurred during the 1967 fighting in Syria. Major Plane was killed by an Israeli shell fragment at his observation post near Port Tewfik on the Egyptian side of the canal. The post had already sustained several near misses and one direct hit that blew a hole in a wall, just a few yards from the observers' living quarters. When firing began again, Plane...