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Firm Tug. Limping because of her broken foot, Polly Mills grabbed her husband's hand and firmly tugged him through the mob of newsmen at the Little Rock airport. One man held up a sign that read SUPPORT THE KENNEDY-MILLS WATER SAFETY BILL, but that gibe did not appear to reflect the majority opinion on Mills' escapade. The next evening an enthusiastic gathering of Jaycees laughed and shouted "Good for you, Wilbur" as Mills attempted to explain what had happened. "I was one of those who went out one night and did something I shouldn...
...Boris Spassky for the world chess championship might actually take place, all hell broke loose at Kennedy International Airport. This time the perpetrator was not a freaked-out Fischer but a small boy who discovered the skittish grand master hiding in an airport bar and led a charge of newsmen to the scene. Bobby bolted out the door, across a highway and vanished into the gloom. His handlers meanwhile, fending off the reporters with kicks and body blocks, were approached by a cop who got right to the heart of the matter. "Who," he wanted to know, "is Bobby Fischer...
...frequent critic of Brazil's military government. Morris was held on vague -and false-charges of "subversive activities" for the Central Intelligence Agency. Despite a formal, forceful protest from U.S. Ambassador John Crinimins, he was still in prison late last week. Halfway round the world in Saigon, American newsmen found themselves involved in another variety of official violence...
...recent weeks, Henry Kissinger has sometimes talked rather more like a Harvard historian than a pragmatic diplomat-negotiator. To aides, newsmen and foreign officials, Kissinger allowed that he feared the possibility of political instability in parts of Europe and that some nations, as a result of the economic crisis, might in desperation embrace authoritarian forms of government...
When Western newsmen first picked up on the story, Soviet newspapers angrily dismissed the reports as "threadbare inventions" of the "bourgeois press." A Tass commentary also contained a thinly veiled reprimand to Tito for lending credence to the rumors that the Soviet Union had been interfering in Yugoslavia's domestic affairs. In a characteristic display of the point-and-counterpoint diplomacy that keeps Yugoslavia straddled between East and West, Tito began backtracking...