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...line" telephone to Major General Albert Watson II. the U.S. commandant in West Berlin. Back came the order: "Lieutenant, you have your orders. Stand fast. Do nothing." Not knowing the reason for the Americans' inaction, an agonized crowd swirled around the command post crying: "For God's sake, go get him." When a German reporter asked why the American troops did not rescue Fechter. one G.I. replied, "This is not our problem...
...Nikolayev blew up at a Soviet tracking station that had given him the wrong time. "You were wrong by five minutes," he said, in understandable anger. "Please give me a new time recording now. Can't you hear what I say? Start the timing, for heaven's sake...
...last week, after 93 lonely days on the Pacific, he finally saw the fog rise over the Golden Gate Bridge, politely offered sake to the puzzled U.S. immigration officials who met him. The immigration service decided to grant a one-month visa, and Happy Horie popped off to see the sights, surrounded by the giggling infield of Osaka's touring girls' Softball team. Back home, Japanese officials had to decide whether to fine Horie for illegal exit or hail him as a national hero, the first Japanese to sail the Pacific solo...
Said Thompson last week, declining to disclose how much he had made or lost on the venture: "For the sake of international relations, we will stoke up Bon Jour and putt off into the night." Building up steam, Thompson achieved at least one thing. Though it still bans commercials, the state radio is playing noticeably lighter music...
...Vitelloni was cut by only 61 seconds, and only because Italy's television censors find homosexuality a topic unfit for family viewing. In the U.S., though, films pass through the hands of many eager vandals: distributors cut them up for money's sake, television for time's sake, and censors for God's sake...