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Confined to their bases to mourn their fallen comrades, Egyptian army units, re-equipped with Soviet armor and vehicles, swore a solemn oath "by great Allah" to liberate Arab lands occupied by Israel. MIG 21s wheeled over Cairo in tight combat formation...
...think of only one time when Jarvis almost lost a volley. A solemn, bespectacled fellow stood up and asked, "How about the cones and rods that discharge electricity behind one's closed eyelids when there is a light source above one? Will it disappear as meditation goes on? In other words, is there any relation between meditation and the phenomena known as astral projection...
Died. George D. Hay, 72, "the solemn ole judge," as he called himself who created Grand Ole Opry and made it the byword of country-western music; of a heart attack; in Virginia Beach Va. One day in 1927, Hay opened his program of hillbilly music over Nashville's WSM by saying, "For the past hour we have been listening to music taken largely from grand opera, but from now on we will present 'the Grand Ole Opry.' " The name stuck, and so did such stars as Eddy Arnold and Jim Reeves, who helped spread the Nashville...
...after a career as an Australian cartoonist, Oliphant got the hang of U.S. politics and effectively ribbed the presidential candidates of that year for the Post. Today he appears in 130 other papers. Ironically, he won a 1967 Pulitzer Prize for one of his rare solemn cartoons. Ho Chi Minh, holding the lifeless body of a Vietnamese amid the smoke of war, proclaims: "They won't get us to the conference table . . . will they?" A more recent cartoon of Oliphant's on the war is much more in character. L.B.J. and Dean Rusk sit in diver...
Haunted Halls. With nudging from his mother, John's writing career began at the age of eight, when he sat down at her typewriter and pecked out his first story, beginning: "The tribe of Bum-Bums looked very solemn as they sat around their cosy cave fire." Even with this early start, his writing career lagged three years behind his parallel interest in cartooning and painting: he had had a collage published in a children's magazine when he was five...