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Promoters call it pocket billiards and push it as a harmless pastime. But for those who really play the game, pool is a mankiller. Robert Cannafax used to fly into such a rage when his game went awry that he would haul out a pocketknife and stab himself repeatedly in his wooden leg. George Fox, another champion, committed suicide after he miscued what would have been his winning ball in the 1865 U.S. championship. Years later, when he lost the championship, Onofrio Lauri rushed out of a Chicago poolroom, cue in hand, and almost threw himself into Lake Michigan before...
Flying Cranes that look like praying mantises, can haul aloft a command-post pod or a disabled airplane with equal ease-or thrust 94 men at a stroke into battle. The 1st Cavalry's transport helicopters are protected by rocket-firing choppers-and at 100 m.p.h. the First Team can swoop down with overwhelming force at any point in the contested highlands that the Viet Cong dare mass and attempt an attack...
Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner make good company for the long haul...
SHIP OF FOOLS. Although Director Stanley Kramer has turned the allegorical Ship into a showboat, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner make good company for the long haul...
...three years. BOAC plans a staff reduction of 18% by 1967. KLM has not only cut back personnel but has also reduced its fleet from 85 planes to 40-and is doing more business than ever. Lufthansa is switching completely to Boeing planes, plans to add 21 short-haul 737s to its fleet of longer-range 707s and 727s. Reason: nearly 48% of the parts of the 737 are interchangeable with those of the 727, a fact that will produce major economies in maintenance costs...