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...without dipping a finger in a fountain. In fact, he ate his way through such delights as soft-shelled crab on a bun, walnut fried Boston sole, partridge with grapes of Almeria, banana dogs, smoked eel of the river Tagus, Kambing Masak Bugis and A jam Panggang-and one ham on rye to go. Followed, on occasion, by antacid tablets...
...This is Radio Free Cuba, the anti-Communist voice of Cuba broadcasting on the 40-meter band. Worker, militiaman, rebel soldier, radio ham-help topple the despot! Close ranks so that the fatherland, today bloodied by Russian imperialism, becomes the tomb of Communism in America. This is Radio Free Cuba transmitting from a point in Cuban territory...
...blast of heat that is already approaching 90° with 90% humidity. With a Vietnamese plainclothes bodyguard, he climbs into the back seat of a Checker Marathon sedan. The car rolls past barbed-wire stanchions, stops 15 minutes later in front of the ugly U.S. Embassy building at 39 Ham Nghi Boulevard. There, barricades block sidewalk passersby, while barbed wire funnels visitors past South Vietnamese soldiers into a lobby guarded by U.S. Marines...
...Tigers had seen their 2-4 lead in singles matches trimmed by a 6-3, 6-1 win by Harvard's Dave Benjamin and Clive Kileff over Ham Magill and Hugh Lynch at third doubles. Meanwhile Bob Inman and Frank Ripley were ahead in the second match, on the way to a 6-3, 8-10, 6-3 victory over Keith Jennings and Lee Rawls...
...Tiger's number four man is an advanced placement sophomore named Ham Magill. Last spring, when Magill was playing at Choate, Clive Kileff, then Harvard's top freshman, lost to him 6-0, 6-0. If they meet again today in the fourth match, as seems likely, Kileff would have to overcome a huge mental block to win. It's not impossible, but unlikely...