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Stiff tailwinds whip the plane along, unexpectedly clipping minutes off the scheduled flight time. In a fateful contest unknown to the people on the plane, the tailwinds race the ticking bomb. At 11:05, 25 minutes ahead of schedule, the DC-3 touches down at Mazatlan's palm-fringed airport. The heavy package is taken off the plane and, while the DC-3 takes off again, it is placed in a luggage cart. At 11:20 the bomb bursts. It kills three airport employees and wrecks the control tower. At the same moment, the direct plane...
...Ashe finished the administration building, put up the lavish Student Club, built out over a man-made lake eight miles southwest of the center of Miami. With gifts from local citizens' groups and a few Manhattan millionaires, he built ultramodern classrooms and breezeways. He lined his walks with palm trees, planted flowering rubber bushes, poinsettia and bougainvillea. This year Miami's enrollment climbed to a total of 10,000 students...
...hearings (C) and Boston face (D) may be interchanged and lowered by mechanism (E). Policy-making hand (F) and Back-slapper (G) are also interchangeable. (H) and (I) are necessary for hurried conferences. "(J) holds 'classified' information. White shoe (K) is a crowd-pleaser within the undergraduate set. Deep palm (L) is especially useful during alumni fund drives. Two necks allow the new president to wear two collars and two ties (M) in the interest of a liberal admissions policy...
...Disnmore Jr.; Boston, Mass.; Robert G. Fakin, Shaker Hghts, Ohio; William D. Geer Jr., New York, N. Y.; David F. Hawkins, Australia; James D. Hays, Johnstown, N. Y.; John S. Holcenberg, Seattle, Wash.; John G. Johnson, Des Moines, Iowa; Lawrence C. Jordan, Denver, Col.; James P. Jorgensen, W. Palm Beach, Fla.; Abba J. Kastin, Cleveland Hghts, Ohio; Richard L. Plaut Jr., New York City; David P. Segel, Newton, Mass.; Richard M. Stenson, Sioux Falls, S. Dak.; Robert H. Washer, Rockville, Center, N. Y.; Joseph B. Yeaton, Hamilton, Mass.; Noble Smith, Marblehead, Mass.; Steven J. Schneider, New York City; Clifford...
Divorced. Fred Perry, 46, British-born ex-world champion tennist (amateur and professional), now the pro at Florida's Boca Raton Club; by his third wife, Lorraine Perry, 44, after six years of marriage, no children; in West Palm Beach...