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Bug-Out Artists. Tshombe himself alternately shouted defiance and whispered of his peaceable aims. After a panicky flight to Southern Rhodesia when the U.N. first attacked, he returned to Katanga, setting up headquarters in the town of Kolwezi. He was disposed to negotiate, he said, but if the U.N. refused...
When the Army called up 119,000 reservists and National Guardsmen during the 1961 Berlin crisis, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was appalled at the results. The civilian soldiers stood at a pitiful average of 65% of authorized combat strength. Several supposedly crack divisions were hopelessly out of training, and many...
Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson, 46, was out to slay a solon. And he had it all planned out. The intended victim was Alexander Wiley, 78, after 24 years the senior Republican in the U.S. Senate. The plan was simple: campaign energetically around the state, irk the old...
Through the Sawdust. Beyond any question, the characters and central incident of Robbins' new novel, Where Love Has Gone, are those of the pitiful 1958 murder case in which Cheryl Crane, Lana Turner's daughter, killed Johnny Stompanato, her mother's lover. As usual, some of the...
Without a word the man and woman labor from dark to dark, from month to month in the long hot season to keep their fields alive. From sun to sun they sleep on a bed of rushes in a hut of reeds. In the autumn they harvest a few sacks...