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Apparently, only some of the Simbas can read. Hoare's new recruits soon learned they were in a far different war from the one fought around Stanleyville, where the Simbas were mostly armed with sharpened sticks, pangas and bows and arrows. In the first skirmish, a white mercenary was killed as crossfire raked the lead patrol. Hours later, another died when he stepped on a land mine...
Color television will soon come to Europe, and a mighty battle is raging over which country-and which company-will supply the system. It is a three-way skirmish among France, the U.S. and West Germany. At stake are the licensing contracts and royalty payments for a market potentially larger than that of the U.S. Some estimates put it as high as 6,000,000 sets and $4.2 billion in sales...
...happy Buddhist, the American captain (Clint Walker) has to restrain a volatile young officer (played with unwarranted assurance by Singer Tommy Sands, Sinatra's son-in-law). The first meeting of G.I. and Jap ends with some cute business of swapping cigarettes for fish. There is a brief skirmish over a boat, but peace follows when Sinatra, as a drunken Irish medic, sobers up to treat the enemy wounded. "I'm a Band-Aid man," he quips, preparing to amputate a Japanese...
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...stormy battle for control of the 1,120,000-member United Steelworkers union, President David McDonald last week lost a prophetic skirmish. McDonald's rival for the president's post is Steelworkers' Secretary-Treasurer I. W. (for lorwith Wilbur) Abel, 56, who for twelve years had worked side by side with McDonald. But over the years the rank and file has found McDonald, 62, to be more and more remote from hearthside problems; sensing this, Abel decided to risk a cozy future in pensioned retirement by challenging McDonald in the union elections to be held next month...