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...Moments later, two swift blips rose on the radar screens-Soviet MIGs in deadly pursuit. The slower-moving blip that marked the RB-66 leaped suddenly into wrenching, zigzag evasive maneuvers, four minutes later disappeared from the screen well within East German terri tory. On the ground, a German schoolboy watched the last moments of the fight: "The fighter closed on the bomber from behind and fired on it. The American plane burst into flames. I saw a fireball on one wing. The crew of three came out by parachute. The first two came out together. The third one came...
Swimming to School. A tiny, wizened vegetarian and teetotaler who stands only 5 ft. 2 in. and weighs a mere 105 Ibs., Shastri* has never been out of India. As a schoolboy he was so poor that he swam the Ganges daily with his books strapped to his head because he lacked boat fare. During India's struggle for independence, Shastri spent a total of seven years in jail, once fasted so long that his weight dwindled to 72 Ibs. He entered the Cabinet in 1952 as Minister for Railways and Transport, a decade later became Home Minister...
...anyone who has picked up a sports page during the past year knows that Archie is more than an Athlete. He is also a Great Guy. The Norman Rockwell schoolboy athletic hero come true. The All-American...
Waugh wrote it during 7½ weeks in 1916 while he was waiting for his army commission. It was a time, he recalls, when women gave white feathers to men not in uniform and every schoolboy dreamed of going to France and getting a mild "blighty"-a wound that would send him back to England uncrippled but with a gold stripe on his sleeve. Loom of Youth told only what all but the most naive schoolmasters already knew-that homosexuality was not uncommon in a system that "herded together monastically children of thirteen and men of eighteen for two-thirds...
...reader of Vogue or Mademoiselle could have told Paris that other "In" notions for fall are: jerkins, jumpers and tunics; boots (chukka-short, mid-calf height or higher, mostly in fake fur and leather); tights and tight pants; turtlenecks (on practically anything except a turtle); schoolboy suits, tarns and caps; and, for a campus fillip, men's bow ties worn as hair bands...