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...marched through ranks of the native Third Kenya Rifles to the strains of Auld Lang Syne, then were whisked away aboard an R.A.F. transport. That midnight, before 50,000 in a Nairobi stadium, Kenyatta's new presidential stand ard was unfurled-crossed spears super imposed on a tribal shield, flanked by a crowing cock...
...depict perversions and sexual adventures as John Cleland saw fit 200 years ago. This is not the way to a better constitutional world; it is rather the path to decay and decline. The Constitution should not be the sword of the shameful profiteer of filth. It must be the shield to protect our sense of moral decency." Next testing station: the New Jersey Supreme Court, which will have to read Fanny all over...
Rusk faced another meeting with President Charles de Gaulle Wednesday in a sharpening diplomatic tussle with France on nuclear policy. De Gaulle has insisted on building his own purely French atomic arsenal in contrast to U.S. hopes for greater integration of the Western defense shield...
...Cape Kennedy a three-stage, 100-ft. Atlas-Agena rocket blasted downrange over the South Atlantic missile track in a perfect launch. Five minutes later, the protective shield, a redesigned shroud of magnesium thorium, was jettisoned right on schedule. Thirty-seven minutes after that, from a 115-mile-high parking orbit over the Indian Ocean, the rocket engine reignited, kicking the 575-lb. Mariner D payload toward Mars at the required speed-25,600 m.p.h. At week's end all was going well with Mariner D and its 138,-000 individual parts. But the spacecraft still has quite...
...pages. McGraw-Hill. $27.50. ARMS AND ARMOR by Vesey Norman. 128 pages. Putnam. $4.95. Who has not, at least in childhood, been fascinated by the medieval knight, his squire and yeoman, and the strange tools they used in war? Cuirass and helmet, shield and sword. Chain mail, longbow, harquebus, pike-and the thin-bladed misericord that could slip between the plates to pluck a man's life from his ribs. The battle-dented, brutally functional field armor of the 14th century; the intricately inlaid and painted parade armor of the 16th. Both of these accounts of arms and armor...