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...employ it whenever his allies get particularly incensed at his prideful, nationalistic policies, since it invariably produces a smile of relief all around without changing anything. Last week, as the 15 ministers of the NATO Council assembled in London to a fanfare from six trumpeters of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. De Gaulle, though not present himself, was at his stooping best...
Growing pains did not keep Laver from winning his share on the tour: $50,000 in 1963, $40,000 last year. Now the Rocket is really off the pad. Last week at Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory, he needed just 41 minutes to polish off Gonzales 6-3, 6-1, to win his fourth victory in six tournaments, boost his 1965 winnings to $15,500-tops on the tour. Admitted Rosewall grimly: "I lie awake nights, staring at the ceiling...
...major has to settle racial tensions between Negro troops and a contingent of Southern renegades led by his fiery second-in-command, Captain Tyreen (Richard Harris). When the major and the captain are not psychoanalyzing each other or saving a village from a regiment of French lancers, they court a German-born widow (Senta Berger). Finally the kidnaped children are recovered and Charriba punished, almost as an afterthought, leaving the way clear for a brisk, bloody showdown between U.S. and French troops...
...last of Colombia's big-time bandits is Pedro Antonio Marin, 34, alias "Tiro Fijo" (Sure Shot), a killer responsible for some 200 murders. In a drive to stamp out the senseless violence that has torn the country's backlands for almost two decades, an army regiment last May went after the bandit and his gang, but Tiro Fijo escaped. Now he is back in business, more vicious than ever and proclaiming himself a Castro-style guerrilla...
...third of South Viet Nam. An atmosphere of siege prevailed in Hue, South Viet Nam's third largest city, where the population dared not leave the city limits. From Quinhon to the 17th parallel, the countryside swarmed with cocky Viet Cong units-some operating in battalion and regiment strength, many now openly wearing olive-drab uniforms and fatigue hats rather than the civilian-style black "pajamas" that once gave them military invisibility...