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...truth lies somewhere in between. Some 15,000 Arab troops effectively dominate the Upper Nile and Bahr el Ghazal provinces, restraining rebel terrorism there to what amounts to pinpricks. Control of the southernmost province of Equatoria (lat. 5° N.), however, rides a seesaw. A Mau Mauist organization known as Any a Nya (Scorpion), armed with Communist machine guns smuggled in originally for Congolese Simbas and reinforced by fugitive Simbas, ambushes Arab patrols, murders suspected Arab sympathizers, and spreads havoc through most of the countryside. Last week the rebels announced that they had attacked a river steamer at Tawfigia...
Industry will have no problem paying for its new plants: earnings reports for the first quarter have already shattered all records. General Motors rang up a 19% first-quarter gain (to $636 million) to seesaw ahead of A.T. & T. once again as the biggest profitmaker ever, and Ford raised its quarterly profits 39%. The airlines hiked their first-quarter profits 152%, led by Eastern Air Lines, which emerged from the red in 1964 to make an 8000% earnings rise in the first quarter. Fittingly, the steel companies led the pack; National was up 23%, U.S. Steel 43%, Youngstown 49%, Bethlehem...
...start, the meet threatened to a bitter pill for Harvard to swallow Howie Henjyoji, wrestling 123, lost seesaw decision to Steve Gluckman Brown 9-8. Henjyoji, whose opponents tormented him all year with third-period rallies, was leading 8-7 in the period when Gluckman escaped to e the score. Two minutes and 20 seconds of riding time gave Gluckman...
...Harvard lineup will read the same today as it did at Coast Guard, with two exceptions. Franklin and Marshall recognizes the 191-pound class, so captain Ben Brooks will move up from 177 to fill it. The addition ends a seesaw struggle between Wickens and sophomore Jeff Hall for the 167 slot. Wickens will wrestle 177, leaving 167 for Hall...
Among math toys is a two-piece jigsaw puzzle with a written number on one piece and a like number of horses or flowers painted on the other. Various counting boards and bars derive from the theory of sets used in computers. A small seesaw devised by Child Guidance Toys Inc. of New York City teaches addition and subtraction by using weighted numerals that hang from each end of the bar; only the combined weight of a two and a seven, for example, will balance a nine. Playskool Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, which got many of its long-popular...