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...would win some friends. Old C-475 ferried arms, food, cigarettes and beer that floated down by orange and white parachutes wherever a royal army contingent could be spotted through the clouds. Luck ran out for one U.S. embassy C-47 on an observation mission, which ran into a hail of ground fire and crashed. The U.S. gave seven crew members up for dead, the first U.S. casualties of the Laotian war. The only survivor-an Army major-was reported a prisoner of the Communists...
...frenzied crowd saw any African as an enemy. One was killed outside the cemetery gate, and for half an hour passing Portuguese would stop and flail the lifeless body. With police help, a terrified African woman and her children escaped in a hail of stones. An African man was cornered in a shed across the road and shot to death. Another was chased to the roof of a warehouse, ran wildly along the ridge as whites took potshots at him like a duck in a shooting gallery. Ten Africans died in the rioting...
...parcel for you fellows." Minutes later, the parcel stumbled down the plane ramp into the eager hands of the tough Katanga gendarmes. It was Patrice Lumumba, blindfolded and shackled to two of his government lieutenants. The Katanga cops fell on all three, dropped them to the ground in a hail of swinging rifle butts. Then they flung Lumumba into a waiting Jeep. With four gendarmes sitting on him, Lumumba was whisked off to a new and secret jail...
Having kept his voice to a whisper throughout the presidential campaign, Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing finally opened up on politics-not to hail victorious Roman Catholic John Kennedy but to give lavish praise to the Quaker loser. Said the Cardinal: "If I were asked to name the good-will man of 1960, I would unhesitatingly give the accolade to Richard Nixon. During the recent campaign he never exploited the religious or any other issue that would tend to divide the American people. When he lost, he was magnificent in defeat...
...Brown on hand to participate in the big salaam. Those who tried to stick to the subject very nearly drowned him in glue. "A Gary Cooper is rare, there is only one," recited Poet Audrey Hepburn, "and there will never be another under the sun." Milton Berle risked a hail of hot lead by saying: "Coop got his first Green Stamps from Polly Adler." Carl Sandburg announced that he and Sinatra had founded an organization in Cooper's honor called GADIEP (Grand Association of the Descendants of Illiterate European Peasants). Said Cooper, legs stretching contentedly from the dais...