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Behind Chiang's expectant, fighting mood is the belief that Red China is seething with revolt and is, in fact, "on the verge of collapse." He is certain that morale on the mainland is at its lowest ebb, cites information relayed by a recently defected Communist MIG pilot and letters received on Formosa from peasants in the coastal province of Fukien who pleaded for liberation. Moreover, argues Chiang, the Sino-Soviet split has be come such a bitter personal rivalry between Mao Tse-tung and Khrushchev that the Soviet leader probably would not run the risk of touching...
Magnifying Glass. Off-camera, she reduces sex to a pilot light. Cary Grant once tried to turn the flame full on. He fell wildly in love with her, and gossips said that he wanted to marry her, but the answer was: "No, grazie." Asked if he still loves her, he says: "Doesn't everybody...
Considered the ablest and most popular of the F.L.N. rebels, Ben Bella was kidnaped in 1956 when, together with four other Algerian leaders, he boarded a Moroccan plane to fly to Tunis. The French pilot unexpectedly landed at Algiers airport and handed his passengers over to the French, who kept them prisoners for the next five years. In accordance with the ceasefire, De Gaulle's government last week released Ben Bella and his friends from confinement in the Chateau D'Au-noy, near Paris. The French wanted to return Ben Bella and his companions to Morocco, but both...
These were the radioed words of a Soviet fighter pilot buzzing a Western transport plane in the skies near Berlin. Failing to get a reply from his Russian ground commander, the pilot did not fire. But the message, monitored by U.S. authorities, was evidence of dangerous new tension in Berlin's aerial war of nerves...
Scrubbed as pilot of the U.S.'s next orbital shot because of "erratic heartbeat" was Astronaut Donald ("Deke") Slayton, 38. Aware of his condition since 1959 and subject to fortnightly recurrences ("I get rid of them by running two or three miles"), the tenacious Air Force major was belatedly-and perhaps only temporarily-grounded by an Air Force medical board last week. The decision was clearly motivated more by fear of bad publicity if Slayton's flight should go amiss than by doubts over his capacity, and understandably left the astronaut "damned disappointed." Sympathized his replacement, Navy Lieut...