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...first Mariner was produced on schedule. It was a strange and beautiful object, worthy to be displayed like expensive jewelry against a black velvet background. Its feather-light tubular framework was brightly polished aluminum; parts made of magnesium were plated with yellow gold. Its solar panels were reddish purple, like wings of a giant butterfly, and gay little highlights sparkled all over its structure. Unseen in its golden hexagonal abdomen were electronic muscles, organs, brains and ganglia, woven together with hair-thin wire. Mariner I, designed for windless and weightless space, looked delicate, but when folded in the chrysalis position...
Those who are out to stop Betancourt are tagged "extremists" by Venezuelans. Most of them are from the extreme left-members of the Communist Party, of the Castro-following Movement of the Revolutionary Left, of a Reddish faction of the left-of-center Republican-Democratic Union. Some are far-right opportunists who hate Betancourt for his insistent social and economic reforms. Their campaign is disjointed: occasional attacks on isolated villages in the hills, the murder of a few Caracas policemen, machine-gun forays on Caracas embassies, a Molotov cocktail thrown at a newspaper printing plant. Up to now, the bulk...
...after the quick-firing actress slung a snifter of brandy at him during a similar tantrum at a Hollywood restaurant "because Arthur kept needling me." After filing a criminal assault report, which he later declined to press, Loew maintained that Miss Laurent's charms escaped him. "She has reddish hair," he said, "and I don't remember the color of her eyes. I'd like to forget her com pletely." "If you ask me if I have had a happy life, I must say no. I have had an extremely unhappy life." Withal, the unkind years have...
...trimmed his 6-ft. 1-in. frame down to 220 Ibs. of bulging muscle, and he is one man who knows his own strength. Liston literally has knocked the stuffing out of a 45-lb. punching bag with one swipe of his right fist. He laughs disdainfully while Trainer Reddish slams a 12-lb. medicine ball into his stomach. In The Pines' steam room one day, Liston picked up a 50-lb. weight with his right hand, casually tossed it up over his head and caught it with his left. Gasped Polino: "If you had dropped it, it would...
...watching TV. Says Liston: "I love to swim and dance, but the fight is getting close. I'm cutting out all the playing and getting down to business." For Liston, business starts at 4:30 a.m., when he gets up, slips into a hooded sweatsuit and pounds on Reddish's door...