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...heads home again at 2:15 in the afternoon with enough folders full of state papers to keep him busy until bedtime. Once a heavy smoker, Abubakar swore off after his 1957 pilgrimage to Mecca, now combats the tensions of his job by chewing the bitter kola nuts that he keeps in the pocket of his long white riga...
Then Khrushchev returned and fired off an abrupt note informing the U.S. that a Soviet fighter plane had shot down the RB-47 near the Kola Peninsula, committing "a gross violation of the Soviet Union's frontier." A Soviet vessel, the note said, had rescued two of the six airmen, and the Soviet government was holding them for "trial under the full rigor of Soviet...
...name. A new delta-wing supersonic bomber, to which NATO recently gave the code name Bounder, appears to match the U.S.'s 6-58 Hustler; the new plane is presumed to be even more advanced. Soviet forces have been energetically improving and expanding far northern airbases from the Kola Peninsula near Scandinavia to the Chukotski Peninsula opposite Alaska. Crews of some 1,000 medium Badger bombers and 200 heavy Bisons have been training hard at airborne refueling operations, are currently rated on a par with U.S. SAC crews. Some of these planes have been seen landing on floating...
...Paso, Tex. 79 *Bowlby, Samuel '60 21 6:3 204 Davenport, Iowa 77 Urban, Benjamin '62 18 6:0 246 Collinsville, Ill. 75 Zigelis, Andrew '62 18 6:2 210 N. Andover, Mass. 74 *Horschman, Lowell '60 21 6:1 219 Nixon, N. J. 73 Kola, Arthur '61 20 6:2 192 New Brunswick, N. J. 72 Hofmann, Richard '60 19 6:2 206 Jenkintown, Pa. 71 Erwin, Peter '60 21 6:1 207 Freeport, L. I. 70 Mooney, Michael '61 21 6:2 212 Milwaukee, Wisc. GUARDS 69 Philip, William '62 18 6:0 212 Brooklyn...
Alone, except for four of his six wives, plump, 59-year-old Ofori Atta awaited the police clad in a long, grey war robe studded with talisman patches of leather. He chewed kola nut (a mild stimulant) as a sign of crisis. Hustled out to a police van, Ofori Atta was driven off through ranks of wailing women, but no spear-brandishing warriors appeared in his defense...