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Some 140 guests sat at small round tables as lanterns mounted on bamboo poles swayed in the soft breeze. In the background, across the south lawn, night lights played over the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial.
You can watch Japanese warriors play vigorous sword games on a stage surrounded on two sides by water and backed by a thunderous Nagare wall. They smash one another over the head with wooden poles, shouting noises of guttural rage, bobbing, feinting, taking clever steps backward and occasionally falling by...
* Last year, Washington extended $46 million in aid and credits to the Poles to help finance their $151 million trade with the U.S. No aid or credits went to the other satellites, whose trade with the U.S. is minuscule: Czechoslovakia $20 million, Hungary $18 million, East Germany $9.6 million, Rumania...
A four-engined Douglas DC-7 skimmed at 140 m.p.h. across the desert sands near Phoenix, Ariz., clipped a pile of railroad ties that sheared off its propellers and landing gear. Next, the left wing smashed into a 25-ft. mound of dirt. Then the right slammed into three poles...
Barbi never had a chance. But Bud almost won the race. Crouched far for ward, poles tucked tightly under his arms, he strained for speed; horrified onlookers guessed that he was hitting 50 m.p.h. Then, just 15 ft. from safety, he stumbled, staggered and fell. By the time rescuers found...