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...little wacky. But when Hobie is cutting and stepping on the gridiron people scratch their heads and wonder when it was they ever saw a white boy run so fast. Not at all like his daddy, Hunter, a quiet fellow who works the evening shift down in the black shaft of mine No. 7--Hunter who lost his wife a few years ago to cervical cancer, contracted, she was sure, because she had committed the sin of enjoying sex too much. Hunter had been slow on the football field, if a sure tackler, and as he gets up around...
...last week's 6% devaluation, Rhodesia's carpetbaggers can pocket half their paychecks of $1,200 to $1,500 monthly earned in such critically labor-short industries as mining and engineering. Mining jobs are available to immigrants who can produce proof of having worked only 200 shaft hours. Such alien adventurers are often as undesirable as redneck mercenaries. Says one supervisor at a Rhodesian iron mine: "It's easy work. The niggers dig all the holes. You just stand over them...
...trouble began when several rock fans tumbled down a poorly covered ventilator shaft on the Alexanderplatz. Clearing the way for rescue teams, police ordered the rock band to stop playing but permitted the Russians to continue their concert. Enraged, the youngsters attacked the police Hurling bottles, sticks and planks and smashing the windows of surrounding buildings, the crowd howled, "Biermann, Biermann"-referring to Poet-Balladeer Wolf Biermann, one of many dissident East German artists and intellectuals who have been forced into exile (TIME, Oct. 3). More menacingly, the rioters began to chant, "Russians out! Russians out!" East German officials were...
...Another escape try from Missouri state pen, on March 10, 1966. Ray placed a dummy in his bed, shinnied up a pole to his cell window, used wire cutters to snip through the steel mesh, and crept through a shaft to a fan ventilator. He hid there until the next night, but when he tried to leave, guards nabbed...
...well at Phillips Petroleum Co.'s Platform Bravo, a stilt-legged rig some 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Norway. Usually crews conduct these periodic "workovers" by closing the valves on the "Christmas tree," or top part of the well, pumping heavy mud down the well shaft to force the oil back to its underground reservoir, and then sealing the well with a cap called a blowout preventer. This time, as the crew worked to fasten the blowout preventer, pressure in the well unexpectedly built up and blew out the temporary plug. A few seconds later the well itself...