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...Prague leaders' agreement on the treaty, the Soviets promised to send home all non-Soviet divisions in Czechoslovakia and reduce the number of their own divisions within the next months. According to speculation in Prague, seven divisions, armored and motorized, will remain behind. They are equipped with Scud and Frog tactical missiles that can fire either conventional or nuclear warheads. The Soviet command is setting up headquarters at Milovice, 25 miles northeast of Prague, where Russian technicians have already installed a troposcatter communications system that gives Soviet Commander Ivan Pavlovsky instant and unjammable contact with other Warsaw Pact headquarters...
Last week, as his Belgian-born wife Tonia looked on and "prayed all the time," 38-year-old Don Campbell took Bluebird, slightly modified with stabilizing fin and redesigned rudder, in a foam-washed scud across the smooth surface of Lake Coniston in Lancashire at 275.15 m.p.h., negotiated the return run in 245.55 for an average of 260.35-breaking his record of 248.62 made last year...
...Alberta through Saskatchewan and on east to Manitoba, Canada's great duck factory was emptying for the winter. Some 200 million ducks, incubated in millions of prairie potholes and marshes that yield 65% of the continent's waterfowl, began the long flight south. From Canada they will scud at 40 to 50 m.p.h. over the four great fly ways (see map) to winter havens scattered from the southern U.S. to northern Peru. Along the way, millions will fall before the guns...
...Pilgrims' pride was not wholly fulfilled. Before Mayflower II would dock permanently near the site of-Plymouth Rock, the ship would scud southward to New York harbor for the summer, there to become a tourist attraction (adults: 90? a head) for local investors. Though on the whole the voyage was duly applauded along the northeast coast, there were unstilled rumblings from the South. Celebrators of Virginia's great Jamestown festival, annoyed that Mayflower II had arrived just in time to steal the festival's thunderous publicity occasioned by an international naval review of 114 vessels from...
Then, late in August, came a scud of rumors linking Javits with Communist-front organizations ten years ago. A prime source of the rumors: Jay Sourwine, former counsel of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee when it was headed by Pat McCarran and now a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator in Nevada. Charged Democrat Sour-wine: "The Justice Department has evidence showing Javits to have been the protege of important Communists, who helped push him up the political ladder." The least of Sourwine's implications: if Republican Javits were nominated he could be thoroughly smeared...