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Battering Ram. Having beautified old Bargème, la Patronne became worried about property development around it. To prevent real estate sharks from cashing in on the town's new attractiveness, she persuaded André Malraux's Culture Ministry in Paris to classify the town as a historical site, thus forbidding new structures on lots of less than 2½ acres. The decree hit Bargème like a battering ram: many villagers, it turned out, had hoped to parcel off their own land at premium prices to wealthy Parisian weekenders. Led by fighting-mad Mayor Isnard...
...opportunity to practice that belief. His bushy white beard flapping in the wind, he dashed through sniper fire in Arab-held Jerusalem to become the first Israeli soldier to reach the Wailing Wall during last year's Six-Day War with the Arabs. Clutching the Torah scroll and ram's horn that are the symbols of his religion, he also led his troops to the tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem and to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. He would have been the first Israeli to cross into Gaza had not an Arab tank shell blasted...
...Ford's Carroll Shelby Cobra GT-500, a modified Mustang with heavy-duty suspension and transmission, hood scoops that ram extra air directly into the carburetors, and a new 428-cu.-in. engine that will be available next month on Ford's Mustang, Torino and Cyclone and Mercury's Cougar as well. Padded roll bars and shoulder harnesses are standard on the Shelby Cobra, as well they might be: the $4,200 car winds up to 150 m.p.h...
...Socialists that has blocked almost all of his major reform legislation. Now the far left is making a determined grab for the reins of his own Christian Democratic Party. Six months ago, a rebel faction led by Jacques Chonchol, Frei's director of agricultural development, managed to ram through a party resolution permitting Castro's chief subversion agency in the Hemisphere, OLAS, to set up a branch office right in Santiago...
...what had to be the worst 60 min utes of his lustrous career, Unitas spent most of the afternoon running for his life from one of the fiercest defenses in pro football. Seven times the Ram defenders dropped him for losses; twice he was intercepted. At the gun, the high-scoring (28 points per game) Colts had 10 points v. 34 for the Rams, who thereby sewed up the N.F.L.'s Coastal Division championship and earned the right to play the Green Bay Packers for the Western Conference title...