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...coast without changing direction. The few that are deflected have been so easy to spot as they fly along the beach that human bird watchers erroneously decided that coastline following was standard bird procedure. The Truro radar sometimes showed conspicuous angels moving out to sea at a 40-knot speed. These proved to be dense flocks of sandpipers, plovers, and other shore birds starting nonstop flights to the West Indies or South America...
...identity, the private poked his head inside the car, ostensibly looking for weapons. Then he ordered the chauffeur to open the trunk compartment. White with anger, Hammarskjold snapped: "You are probably unaware of the fact that I have diplomatic immunity." Replied the paratrooper: "I have my orders." While a knot of French soldiers grinned their amusement, a paratroop lieutenant asked lazily: "Who is Hammarskjold, anyway...
Winston Churchill - The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Tying the Knot; the final campaign in Germany. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery offers his recollections...
...Khrushchev thinks more like Richelieu and Metternich than like Woodrow Wilson," Walter Lippmann writes after his Moscow visit. Certainly the Russian Premier is handling the current Russian-British exchanges on Laos with coolness and detached calculation. Indeed, the deliberation with which both sides in the neotiations are unravelling each knot in the Laotian crisis almost justifies the British government's faith that a settlement is immanent. The importance of a cease-fire, the return of the international commission to Laos, and a 14-power conference to settle the future of that faction-torn land--all are, in vaguest outline, agreed...
Living Book. Naturally, Ionides is a living book of knowledge on the ways of the snake. A spitting cobra spits in one's eye. Ionides was temporarily blinded and in pain for two days. Love among the serpents is pretty snaky. Rival males get all intertwined in a knot. "Nobody knows how the winner wins, or why," but the suitors are good sports-they never bite each other. The snake with the deadliest bite is the Gaboon viper, a hideous flat-headed creature whose two-inch fangs can bring agonizing death in three seconds...