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...Paris, the principal radio station bulletined news of the Pope's death 67 hours before it happened, then made it self look more foolish the following day with the breathless announcement, "He's still alive!"The German-Swiss tabloid Blick -which, appropriately, is printed on pale yellow paper -passed the word two days early and was promptly at tacked in 12,000 copies of a handbill drawn up by citizens of Lucerne...
...than ever is the esoteric and specialized worldwide market in postage stamps. In Manhattan last week, the costliest stamp in history was auctioned for $41,000 by Bernard Harmer, U.S. partner of London's H. R. Harmer Ltd., the world's leading stamp firm. It is a pale blue, unused 2? Hawaiian Missionary stamp-so called because such stamps were mostly used by Christian missionaries writing home in the mid-19th century-and it replaced the renowned British Guiana one-cent magenta ($32,900) as the world's most valuable stamp. Its sale also proved once again...
...Highlander. That's why I'm so pale. It's true I get a bit tired, but I soon pop up again...
Just One More. Pale and Haggard. Botvinnik seemed to have aged ten years; Petrosyan lost 10 Ibs. Three games had to be postponed when the combatants showed up sick. But training was starting to tell: after 21 games, Petrosyan led 12-9, needed just one more draw to clinch the best-out-of-24 match. As Game No. 22 started, a warning sign flashed KEEP SILENT, and TV cameras eagerly dollied in. After only nine moves, Petrosyan proposed a draw. Botvinnik refused. "Go ahead," he said. "Move." The challenger moved, and leaned back, his face impassive, eyes half closed. Five...
...bride wore a plaid sports shirt and blue jeans that were several sizes too big. The groom wore an open-necked blue shirt, faded jeans, pale boots. Astride horses, surrounded by prize Santa Gertrudis cattle, backdropped by the Andes, Governor and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller played host last week to newsmen while honeymooning at Monte Sacro, a 14,826 acre Rockefeller ranch in Venezuela. Invited by her new husband to pick any horse in the corral as a gift, the former Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, 36, selected a Venezuelan champion stallion named Oleaje. Beamed Rocky: "She chose the best horse...