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...legislators frothed with frustration. Florida's Senator George Smathers led the chorus calling for U.S. military forces to march right into Havana and grab the Electra. And one Eastern Air Lines director exploded: "I'd bomb every damned airport Castro's got. This was stealing, kidnaping, mail robbery and felonious assault aboard a United States aircraft-and the sad part is that this country is doing nothing about it. What in hell's come over this country...
...modern ballplayers and in teaching youngsters the fine points of baseball. He once counseled a teen-age catcher: "You're doing fine, son. But here's something you might try. When the pitcher has already thrown the ball and the umpire is looking at it, you grab a handful of dirt and fling it up into the batter's eyes...
...seriously suggest that calling up a dozen Reserve divisions will make Khrushchev hesitate to make a grab for Berlin. But the Army wants to prepare as fast as it can for any brush fires the Russians may set around the rim of the Western world while U.S. attention is riveted on Germany. Rushing its readiness, the Defense Department last week announced that it will build up the Army full strength (870,000) by drafting 8,000 men in August, the largest draft call since last December...
Huddling grimly with his close aides, General Mobutu seemed determined to prevent Gizenga's return to national influence at any cost, and suspicion rose that the 30-year-old army chief might try to grab control of the central government with a military coup d'etat to make sure his views prevailed...
Fish-eyed Frankie Carbo, 56, boxing's undercover czar, took one on the chin in Los Angeles last week. A federal jury convicted the Murder, Inc. graduate of extortion, conspiring to grab a piece of ex-Welterweight Champion Don Jordan's purses and threatening his manager and a promoter. Carbo, who has served time for manslaughter and illegal matchmaking but beaten five murder raps, faces up to 85 years in prison and $50,000 in fines. Also convicted were his chief errand boy. Frank ("Blinky") Palermo; Lawyer Truman Gibson Jr., once president of the now defunct International Boxing...