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...heat of the day rose, it became clear that the main Communist force was walking into the same trap. In this group were at least 500 guerrillas, many of them youths in typical black peasant pajamas, obviously recruited from the local villages. Some carried red banners with white hammer-and-sickle emblems; almost all were armed with mortars, machine guns, rifles or grenades. Splashing through the swampy land, they made easy targets as the government soldiers opened up with withering machine-gun fire and a barrage of shells from the well-hidden 105-mm. artillery pieces...
Like an Olympic hammer thrower gathering momentum for a major effort, the West last week swung slowly through the first motions of response to the Soviet challenge on Berlin...
More Time. Instead, the U.S. concentrated its activity on trying to increase the economic health of the rest of Latin America. It agreed to a postponement (until Aug. 5) of the Uruguay meeting of OAS economic ministers to hammer the Alliance for Progress into shape. Curiously enough, the delay was a sign of progress. Several Latin American nations requested more time to prepare their requests for U.S. aid. Reporting on his trip to Washington's National Press Club, Envoy Stevenson presented the plight of Latin America's single-product nations, vulnerable to commodity price wobbles, by emphasizing...
Obviously this is not the Mucky Spleen (Pogo's phrase for him) of old. The hero -not Mike Hammer but a creep named "Deep" for short and "Old Deep the Cannon Boy" for long-is splattering a man. Hammer seldom bothered with anything so tame; he ka-powed naked blondes in the stomach with his blue-glinting .45. Such parlor pleasantries accounted for the sale of 32 million paperback copies of Spillane's seven previous titles. The new boy, a hardrock who shows up to take over his neighborhood gang after 25 years of mysterious absence, will never...
...proved this is 56-year-old José de Rivera, 15 of whose sculptures went on display last week at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. De Rivera's scoops and swoops of polished or painted metal are liquid geometry produced with such skill that neither hammer blow nor welded seam is ever visible...