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...life in danger. At a critical moment when he still had no pledge of outside help and no firm assurance that his own troops would remain loyal, King Hussein I, a 22-year-old boy turned man, chose to hang on and to fight back. For sheer pluck and determination, no man in the Middle East surpassed him last week...
Supported on such lofty principles, Ty Ty sometimes simply cannot understand how the rest of his family can be so beastly. His daughter Dahlin' Jill (Fay Spain) is the sort of Georgia peach that any man can pluck-and several do. His daughter-in-law Griselda (played by Tina Louise, the Appassionata von Climax of Broadway's Li'l Abner) plays her most important role in the hay with her brother-in-law (Aldo Ray), an event that, for one quaint reason or another, gives the fellow's wife almost as much satisfaction as it gives...
...suburbs. Early in his term Big Nick set up committees to study Denver's needs and to find ways and means of raising the money for an improvement program. The mayor's own suggestion: a city income tax. To the folks in metropolitan Denver, who already pluck the petals off their salaries for federal and state income taxes and state and city sales taxes, this seemed a big nick indeed. They said so bluntly. Even more bluntly, the mayor persisted...
...three weeks since he arrived in the palm-and frangipani-dotted capital of Colombo bravely proclaiming, "My name is Gluck, and it rhymes with pluck," Gluck has got on famously. On his first official call, Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike confided genially that Gluck was not the first to have trouble with his name. After four years at Oxford, Bandaranaike told Gluck, he had only two friends who got it right...
...about. Until Boeing and Douglas pure jetliners were ready to fly in 1959, British Overseas Airways Corp.'s big (93 passengers), fast (385 m.p.h.) turboprop plane seemed a likely cream-skimmer in the lush transatlantic trade. But once again Britain's state-dominated aircraft industry managed to pluck defeat from victory. Nine months late, Bristol last week finally rolled out the first of 18 Britannia 312s for BOAC amid a chorus of complaints about the plane. It was still so full of bugs that further testing will keep it out of service until early next year...