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...came quickly. Across the world-and even in the sleek chambers of U.N. headquarters in Manhattan-Communist-inspired squads broke into rioting (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Soviet Union threatened military intervention in behalf of the Communist-lining Congolese Pretender Antoine Gizenga. It reopened its campaign to destroy the authority of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and. in effect, to destroy the U.N. as a force for law and as a workable instrument of orderly neutrality...
...beginning, the sleek, up-to-date four-engined turboprop llyushin 18 was the pride of Russia's propagandists. But last August, Russian authorities were forced to announce the crash of an IL-18 flying from Cairo to Moscow because several Afro-Asian notables happened to be among the 27 killed (TIME, Sept. 5). After the crash the IL-18 was briefly grounded. The trouble seemed to be with the engine mountings (as with its U.S. counterpart, the Lockheed Electra) and with the engines. But IL-18s kept landing at African airfields as Russia's contribution...
...private zoo, Durrell, 35, has not neglected his writing. In fact, he shows his brother's gift for impaling the vivid butterfly of reality on the point of a pen. Only a very special zoologist could look at a white-bodied, black-footed mongoose and observe: "She was sleek, sinuous, and svelte, and reminded me of a creamy-skinned Parisienne belle-amie clad in nothing more than two pairs of black silk stockings...
Butterfield 8. The crude but affecting tart's tragedy of the O'Hara novel has become a sleek and libidinous lingerie meller - featuring Elizabeth Taylor as an enthusiastic amateur...
Butterfield 8. The crude but affecting tart's tragedy of the O'Hara novel has become a sleek and libidinous lingerie meller -featuring Elizabeth Taylor as an enthusiastic amateur...