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...things actually were going last week in the Congo's copper-rich Katanga province, where the U.N. was waging war with Tshombe's breakaway regime for the third time since September 1961. In two weeks, the tough U.N. troops had seized a steadily lengthening ribbon of rail lines and nearly every major population center in the province. Only the western copper town of Kolwezi remained in Katanga's grip; it was defended by 2,000 boozy gendarmes, 100 of Tshombe's white mercenaries, and a smashing blonde ambulance driver known as "Madame Yvette," who sauntered about...
...pages of full-color illustrated helps, a Biblical time chart in color, an entirely new collection of modern full-color photographs, and an eight-page, full-color selection of maps"-all for only $8.50 in the edition with "French Morocco Black Leather semi-overlapping covers, red under gold edges, ribbon marker, boxed." Harper & Row has a children's Bible with 44 pages of new Children's Helps, "the first set of helps that children can use fully and understand easily." Harper also claims its "black watermarked sealskin is the only such binding announced by any RSV publisher." Cleveland...
...turned-historian who examined the history of one of the river's sources in The White Nile, tells in his latest book what succeeds the great civilizations-Egyptian and Greek-that rose and fell with the Blue Nile as its annual floods gave life to the narrow green ribbon across the deserts and supported the great cities at the delta...
...returned to his grass-roots birthplace at West Branch, Iowa (pop. 1,053), to dedicate his own library, the fourth presidential library created by Congress (others: Roosevelt's at Hyde Park, N.Y., Eisenhower's at Abilene, Kans.). But on this occasion, an ex-President did more than ribbon-snip. Speaking "as the shadows gather around me," Hoover took the United Nations to task. The world organization was racked by the "disintegrating forces" of the Communist nations, said the grand old Republican, and so he proposed a standby "Council of Free Nations" that would step in, with military force...
...Call Me Meester." From the moment Kennedy touched down at the mile-high capital, a city once occupied by U.S. troops in the war of 1846-48, Mexicans made it clear that their feelings were good neighborly. A solid ribbon of people lined every inch of the seven-mile ride into town, packing the curbside 20-deep, clinging to billboards, perched on rooftops, statues and lampposts. Mexico City's cops estimated the throng at 1,500,000. There had obviously been plenty of government organization to get out the crowds, but such enthusiasm could not be feigned, or done...