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...world record for the 100-yd. dash. Although ten men have matched his time,* no one yet has raced past Patton into the record book. But this year the old champ has a new, more dangerous challenger: San Jose State's cocky Dennis Johnson, a whippet-fast Jamaican who is undefeated in eleven straight races, and this month became the first runner in history to tie Patton's world record four times in a single season. Says Johnson: "I should break the record this summer. I'll do it the first time I get any competition...
...stairs and hid in a hallway storage bin. The G-2 men waited in the apartment; Mallin waited in the bin. At 5 a.m. Mallin crept down the stairs, shoes in hand, and made it past his apartment to the street. He rode a city bus downtown, found a Jamaican cabby he knew who drove him to the former U.S. embassy residence, now occupied by the Swiss. Bluffing his way past Castro's militia guards, he was admitted as a "guest," and there he stayed until he was able to make his way out of Cuba...
...Virgin to be relieved of their childlessness. Their prayers are answered. But the Madonna in "heir church, a figure carved from Irish Dog oak, is black as ebony; so, too, is their first-born child. This merciless story makes plain that neither inheritance nor adultery with a Jamaican can explain the couple's embarrassingly Negroid blessing. For all its apparent defiance of realism, this kind of Spark fiction-typical of most tales in this collection-has honest intentions: to make vivid the author's conviction that the face of the world is a mask, and that the real...
Last week 250 Jamaican policemen and rookies of Britain's Royal Hampshire Regiment were sent out to reconnoiter the Red Hills. The soldiers carried rifles, but no bullets (Jamaican law forbids foreign troops to carry live ammunition without special permission). An unarmed patrol of British soldiers ran straight into an ambush laid by Reynold and his Brooklyn buddies, surrendered after the first burst of machine-gun fire. The Ras Tafarians then ordered the tommies to kneel, shot at them from short range. Two were killed, the other two wounded. The guerrillas commandeered a truck and headed deeper into...
When news of the killing reached Kingston, Premier Manley mobilized the island's forces. A force of 1,000 men-Jamaican cops, West India Regiment troops and British soldiers of the Hampshires-was sent into action with aircraft, police dogs mortar and rocket crews. Manley pleaded with Jamaican hill-dwellers who knew the fugitives' whereabouts to cooperate in tracking them down, but for fear of Ras Tafarian reprisal, the answer was silence...