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...Super-Babitch. The Joker in the original French is Le Gaffeur, a fellow who always does the wrong thing. Pierre Javelin lives in a police state called the City, where the sky is never visible and people live in parallelepipeds, geometrical monstrosities housing up to 5,000 families. Pierre is not aware that he has done anything wrong when, arriving home one night, he cannot turn his key in the lock. A giant "with a Russian mustache" is living in the apartment, and Pierre's wife is gone...
...aviation exhibition. The show itself was as spectacular as ever, with radical-shaped aircraft cavorting all over the place. Best eye-catchers: two white Avro Vulcans, delta-winged bombers that look like great albino sting rays sliding through the sky (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The Gloster Javelin day & night fighter was another impressive delta wing...
...fields of Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury, England, were cleared last week for a competition called the Paralympics, and a crowd of 3,000 watched teams from eight nations fight out the two-day meet. The sports on the calendar were commonplace: netball (similar to U.S. basketball), snooker, archery, table tennis, javelin throwing, shot-putting and swimming. The manner of competition, though, was singular. Each of the 200 contestants was a paraplegic, denied the use of his lower body and forced to remain in a wheelchair for life. Some players were so badly crippled that the table-tennis paddles...
...Mello placed second behind Rittenburg in the broad jump, and then cleared 12 feet 9 inches in the pole vault for a first. And Carl Goldman, who had never won an event before, threw the javelin 162 feet 91/2 inches for a first place. Goldman also took second in the hammer throw, behind the Crimson's Bob Curran...
...Murray won the shot with a heave of over 46 feet, with teammate Dirk Wallecks second. Herbie Collins took the javelin throw...