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...running for what in the political campaigns these days, the pundits have been wrong more often than right. So no one could blame Cosmopolitan magazine for seeking out a fresh face- and a pretty one at that-to cover politics for its lady readers. Armed with a note pad and a camera Actress Candice Bergen, 22, is heading for the hustings on Bobby Kennedy's campaign trail in the first leg of her new assignment to report on the candidates in the Oregon primary. "I didn't even know what a primary was," admits Candy. Still, writing...
...Crimson rallied briefly in the sixth and seventh innings when they scored unearned runs, but B.C. retaliated with a tally in the eighth to pad its margin...
...style of, better brace yourself, Jack Pickford or the late Douglas Fairbanks. The fact that I have to reach back four decades to describe his hairdo will only stress the curiously old-fashioned look of him. Some men dash into a room, some gallop, others float, burgeon, slide, pad, lope or glide. McNamara's entrance is something between a creep and a stroll...
...Saturn 5 lifted off its Cape Kennedy launching pad with dramatic precision last week, ground controllers had visions of a repeat of last November's near-perfect maiden flight of the giant rocket. Their optimism was premature. Only six minutes after lift off, Saturn encountered the first of a series of troubles that may cause a delay of months in landing the first astronauts on the moon...
...trials; some Western sea experts feel that the Russians may build many more. The Soviet carriers have landing areas only on the rear and can thus handle only helicopters or vertical-takeoff aircraft. They are similar, in fact, to the American I wo Jima-type LPH (for Landing Pad Helicopter), of which the U.S. Navy has eight, two of them stationed in Viet Nam waters as offshore bases for Marines. So far, the Soviets have given no indication that they will advance to the large U.S.-style attack carriers, since they consider such carriers vulnerable to attacks by missiles...