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...outset, Gabon's 450,000 citizens couldn't have cared less about the coup. But the combination of French steel and Mba's flinty threats of "total punishment" once he was back in office finally struck a spark. In Libreville's La-lala quarter, a dissonant mob formed. Fired up on payday whisky, it marched on the capital's central market, screaming: "Frenchmen go home!" The rioters were finally dispersed in a crunching whirl of para rifle butts...
These road boys may lack spark, they may lack ingenuity, but they are no fools. So they have compensated. For enthusiasm they substitute buffoonery; for wit, volume; for satire, ridicule...
...defense which had kept the team in all previous games finally evaporated. Goaile Brandy Sweitzer had his first off day in two months. The defensemen showed only occasional spark, and Sweitzer was left to fend for himself far too often. Crimson clearing was practically non-existent...
Died. Frank Cleary Hanighen, 64, journalist who in 1934 with H. C. Engelbrecht wrote Merchants of Death, an exposé of World War I munition cartels that helped spark the 1934-36 Senate investigation into war profiteering, provided powder for isolationists; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...Heller continues to have his say, President Johnson's basic concern will be over how the U.S. economy can quicken its growth. The conventional answer is that more exciting new products must be found to spark consumer demand and to start up new industries. In the opinion of Simon Ramo, vice chairman of space-age Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, "we do not have that kind of rapid, exciting growth in new products for civilian use that our scientific base would lead us to expect...