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...Paolo suburb to hunt for "suspected arms," shot down 33 Africans at random. A government spokesman later reported the raid proudly. Fortnight ago in Luanda, a country coffee planter spotted two Africans he believed had been with a rebel band that burned his plantation. He led a pick-up mob of whites down Luanda's main street. The mob literally tore one man limb from limb, pitched the other screaming off a six-story roof to crash through the candy-striped umbrella of a sidewalk cafe. The police casually watched...
Cruising routinely through the chill North Pacific last fall, U.S. Navy ships and aircraft reported unusual Russian missile activity. The Navy tracked a couple of Russian intercontinental missile shots into northern waters, considered deploying a U.S. submarine to snag a made-in-Moscow ICBM nose cone before Russian pick-up ships could get to it. During the past fortnight the Navy watched with increasing interest as radar-studded Russian trawlers headed thousands of miles southward into the Central Pacific. Last week the Navy and the U.S. got the news through Moscow's Tass Agency of what the Red fleet...
...wide-awake and on the scene for the doubles, however, as he and Tom Freiberg won that title, defeating the pick-up Crimson team of Fred Vinton and Bill Wood in the final. Yale nearly had to default this one, too, as Freiberg, viewing the singles from atop the M.I.T. tennis shack, had difficulty getting down from his perch for the doubles. He finally made it, though, and the match went...
...driver turned around slowly. "You want to know the best pick-up spots in town," he intoned. "Well, I can take you to one down in South Boston. No, that woudn't be safe for a guy looks like you. Better try Harvard Yard...
Civil Defense workers are now preparing maps of escape routes which will be posted in university buildings. In the event of war, all vehicles would have to follow these prescribed routes and stop along the way or at special pick-up points for people without a ride...