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...Portuguese army had boasted that it would smash the six-month-old rebel lion in Angola before the rainy season began. Last week, as the rains approached, the army was in control...
...track and field stars had seldom looked better. Villanova's muscular Frank Budd sprinted 100 yds. in 9.2 sec. to smash Mel Patton's 1948 world record, oldest on the books. No fewer than 13 pole vaulters scaled 15 ft. California Schoolboy Ulis Williams, 19, chased Veteran Olympic Champion Otis Davis, 28, to the wire in the 440, finished only 0.2 sec. behind him. An unorthodox upstart from Southern California, Bob Avant, dived headfirst over the high-jump bar, somersaulted onto his back with a crunching thud after clearing 7 ft. to beat Boston University's John...
Madame Furtseva's latest smash hit abroad is Leningrad's Kirov Opera Ballet Company, which last week wound up a ten-day stand in Paris. A star of the show was Rudolf Nureev, 23, whom Paris critics hailed for his spectacular leaps in the famous Bluebird pas de deux in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. But word had spread through the dance company that Nureev intended to defect, and when the dancers arrived at Le Bourget Airport for departure to London, Nureev, sullen and tense, was accompanied by two Russian strong-arm men, euphemistically described later as "unofficial...
...Smashing Sea. Since Greene has always been more interested in the play of light than in color for its own sake, he used a muted palette that mostly shunned the red end of the spectrum. In The Sea (see color), great waves smash upon the rocks, but the painting itself has the limitlessness of abstraction. And the abstraction called Composition 1958 really began with a figure lying on a couch, but the figure has so receded into the environment that its presence can only be felt. In other paintings, parts of a face or body may fill the whole canvas...
...educating the illiterate medieval masses in the fundamentals of the Chris tian faith. The present production consists of 18 of the plays-skillfully edited into a 3½hour evening in comprehensible English by onetime Cambridge Scholar Martial Rose. Performed by the Mermaid Players, the result is a smash hit with modern Londoners-it is heavily booked for a nine-week...