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...leading Chicago store reported sales as "phenomenal"-the hottest selling item in 14 years. In Atlanta a distributor was going out to greet plane shipments at 2:30 in the morning. A Dallas distributor was biting his nails waiting for his order of 30,000 copies. In Washington another distributor crowed: "It's beyond our entire experience, and we've been in business 15 years!" Said a Miamian: "Like people are going crazy, man! The demand exceeds our supply by the thousands-I don't mean hundreds. I mean thousands!" Said a Boston record...
...KANU's boss, Jomo is not only out of jail and rehabilitated, but is also the hottest prospect to be Kenya's first ruler when the colony becomes a nation, possibly within a year. So far, the electioneering has been fairly moderate, but trouble is threatened by something called the Land Freedom Army, a mysterious group of Kikuyu tribesmen with terrorist aims, who have gathered in the forests to revive the hideous Mau Mau oathing ceremonies over carcasses of strangled cats. Like the Mau Mau, they have begun slipping onto white farmers' property by night to maim...
...went through the Navy's test-pilot school and then was assigned to the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent. Md. For a flyer this was longhaired stuff, and fine for Schirra's desire to emphasize the engineering side of aeronautics. His work was checking out the hottest new aircraft, and sometimes playing games with antiaircraft missiles. When he first heard about the Mercury man-in-space program, he put it out of his mind as visionary, but later realized that space flight is the logical next step in aviation, and went after a job as an astronaut...
...stunning political triumph. Seeking the Democratic Senate nomination in Massachusetts, he amassed 69% of the vote, humiliated State Attorney General Edward J. (Eddie) McCormack by a margin of 559,251 to 247,366. At 30, and just three years out of law school, he was one of the hottest political properties outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
Question Mark. One of the hottest battles will be over money. The U.S. is preparing a major campaign to whittle down the U.N.'s huge $138 million deficit by collecting back dues from delinquent members, including cash for the expensive Congo and Middle East policing actions. Despite an advisory opinion by the World Court that delinquent nations should pony up their full share for all the U.N.'s activities, Russia has flatly refused to pay for the Congo operation. Said Gromyko: "Let no one entertain the belief that the Soviet Union will divert a single kopeck to aiding...