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After an extended search, Johnson finally located Ware at his house, where he was ready to go to sleep. Johnson ordered Ware into his car, searched him--finding only a small pen knife which he confiscated--and headed back towards Newton to the county jail...
Caught en route in a traffic jam, Scandalous John takes on a "hideously grinning" Buick with his bowie knife, and from then on things get worse. Author Gardner, 31, who lives on an island off Spain's Costa Brava, explains that his inspiration for this first novel was the question: "What would the American knight-errant be like and what would be his fate?" His answers seem to be Scandalous John's repeated cry, "I'm my own man," and his bloody end on a city sidewalk in a confrontation with an uncomprehending guardian of the sanitary...
Doubts Astir. NASA Administrator James Webb complained that the "overall result" of the committee's knife work "is an inadequate level of support for a program that is urgently needed, has achieved a high level of success and is now giving this nation the promise of early pre-eminence in all phases of space exploration." But the committee's cuts did not reflect misgivings about the goal of U.S. pre-eminence in space. What committee members had doubts about was NASA and the way Webb was running...
...great liberties with rhythm, his superb sense of timing prevents him from losing the feeling of swing. Rollins' meeting with Coleman Hawkins created the kind of excitement which Thelonious Monk's meeting with Pee Wee Russell completely failed to engender. The exchange of ideas between Rollins, with his jabbing, knife-like tones, and the mellower Hawkins, was like a friendly debate between two great philosophers. Unlike Monk and Russell, the two tenor saxophonists had enough in common to make a meeting valuable...
Suffering from amoebic dysentery, fainting spells and an inflamed kidney, Moise Tshombe, 43, was being treated last week in the Clinique de Passy in Paris. At the same time, his once potent and economically healthy domain of Katanga was going under the knife back in the Congo. Last year the Congo central government cut North Katanga out of Tshombe's former domain, leaving him only the southern part. Now the government subdivided the area further, into the provinces of East Katanga and Lualaba...