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...from the boys" in Southeast Asia. And in the squat, stern person of Premier Sarit Thanarat, 52, Thailand had a man. After he seized power in a bloodless coup in 1957, Field Marshal Sarit posed the problem for himself. "Anybody can stage a revolution," he said. "The snag, once the revolution is staged, is to win public approval." He has succeeded remarkably well...
...powerful Navy crew nosed out the Crimson lightweights at Annapolis Saturday to shatter the varsity's victory string at 32. Finishing first by 1.2 seconds, the Middles crushed Crimson hopes for their fourth consecutive undefeated season and threw a snag in their plans for an easy victory at the EARC sprints...
Between forays to a Washington psychiatric hospital to sign Ezra Pound (see BOOKS) or to London to snag T. S. Eliot, the partners did their own taping, cover designing, package wrapping and mailing. Most of the orders were for their initial recording, a reverberating reading by Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas, whom they approached by sending him a note after a poetry reading ("We just signed our initials," recalls Marianne, "so he wouldn't know we were unbusinesslike females"). After five days of hounding him, they finally got the poet's agreement, and the six records he turned...
...secret of Amherst's success Saturday was its far-ranging goalie, Tony Scolnick. Sophomore Philip Hime got off several fine crosses in the third period, but Scolnick handled them all. Finally, Scolnick broke the Crimson's back by coming out to the edge of the goalie's area to snag a Hime corner kick...
...spotted its brightly colored parachute, dead ahead at 16,000 ft. Under his fuselage, in an inverted V, hung twin 38-ft. booms; between them, trapeze-fashion, stretched a nylon rope and a grappling hook with which Mitchell hoped to foul the cords of Discoverer's parachute, snag its canopy. Winch operators would then take over, reel the dangling capsule into the plane. At 12,000 ft. Mitchell made a pass-and missed by a breathtaking 6 in. The parachute continued its float down. Mitchell made another pass at it at 10,000 ft., but brought...