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Through the Mud. On the Goa border near the town of Banda last week while the sullen monsoon rains fell, some 60 satyagrahis, watched by a small group of foreign newsmen, unfurled India's tricolors and squashed through the mud towards Goa, shouting "Goa India ek hail" (Goa and India are one). In a stone customs post at the border were ten Portuguese and Goan policemen armed with rifles and Sten guns. Half concealed in thick bush behind them were white Portuguese and Negro soldiers from Mozambique. The satyagrahis had advanced 30 feet inside the Goa border when...
...plane was Hying 180 knots at 8,000 feet," the commander, Lieut. Richard Fischer, said a few hours later, "when ordnance [i.e., his aviation ordnanceman] reported a Russian plane. 'I have an aircraft! It's firing on us!' I took immediate evasive action. A hail of machine-gun bullets hit the fuselage and port wing, and injured three or four men. We had no opportunity to return fire...
...Pointe Farms, Mich. In Washington he has not yet picked up a club, lives in a one-bedroom apartment where Mrs. Brucker collects Meissen china and 3-D photos. Their son is a third-generation lawyer in Detroit. Even-keeled Wilber Brucker neither drinks nor smokes, laughs readily and hail-fellows Odd Fellows, Masons, and a host of other fraternal brothers. At a recent Washington party he met a Soviet general, who asked if he had ever seen military service. "I was a corporal in the Army," said Brucker genially. "Well," said the Russian consolingly to the U.S. Army...
...decided it would be a good idea -and possibly good politics-to make a brisk good-will tour of some of the mother countries of his constituents. Most of the homelands were happy to have him (all but France agreed to foot his expenses), and early this month the hail-fellow mayor and his blonde wife were off. By last week the Wagners were the most talked-about Americans abroad, from Dublin to Tel Aviv...
...Intense and studiously silent, U.S. Air Force Lieut. Joe Conrad, 25, allowed himself only a low little pre-putt whistle to relieve the tension of the final round of the British Amateur golf championship. It was enough. Unruffled by the rain and hail that blew off the Irish Sea, Conrad staved off England's Alan Slater and won the match on the Royal Lytham and St. Anne's links...