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...sports, it is the drama of score-the breakaway touchdown, the grand-slam homer-that makes the excitement. In basketball, the scoringest sport in the land, it is the nerve-burning electricity of the highpoint game. The 1963-64 season saw shooting that would have been the envy of Marshal Dillon: an average of 148.8 points per game, two-team total, for 3,890 major college games-a full 9.8 points higher than just a year...
After a seven-day visit with his neutralist pal, Marshal Tito, Algeria's President Ahmed ben Bella last week set off for home. By rights, Ben Bella should have flown 1,060 miles southwest to Algiers. Instead, his Russian-piloted Ilyushin-18 plane headed north and touched down at France's Melun air port, 26 miles from Paris. There, a helicopter was waiting to hustle Ben Bella to the Chateau de Champs for a conference with Charles de Gaulle...
...East African Airways flight 304 approached Zanzibar one day last week, a message flashed ahead: "It is I, the field marshal, who comes. Have my army and the press waiting." Zanzi-baris could not fail to recognize the unique style of John Okello, the messianic Ugandan house-painter-turned-revolutionary whose bloody anti-Arab coup put Zanzibar's black Afro-Shirazi Party in power two months ago. But all that awaited Field Marshal Okello was rejection...
Appointment in Nairobi. His 1,200-man army was gone-dissolved by burly President Abeid Karume, who had tired of Okello's manic ravings. No sooner had the field marshal arrived than Karume sent him winging back to the mainland. There, Okello called a press conference on the veranda of Tanganyika's Dares Salaam Club, sadly explained that he had been kicked out of Zanzibar because some people, "four or five" at least, felt he carried the seeds of death. "Wherever I go there will be bloodshed," he mourned. But the old elan returned when he was asked...
...point during the Government's three-week presentation, Hoffa took to addressing U.S. attorneys as "Gestapo agent" and "Kremlin agent." He threatened Prosecutor James F. Neal with legal proceedings against "you and your bums." Another time, Hoffa offered to fight a U.S. marshal...