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...been advised that his glide path took him directly over Premier Tshombe's own residence; before he touched ground, his fuselage and one of his engines had been peppered with small-arms fire aimed skyward by Tshombe's own house guards, leading the U.S. to suspend the airlift for a day until the U.N. could guarantee fighter escorts...
...free entry into Britain, to the Tory Times, which feared for the already fragile fabric of the Commonwealth. Last week, when the bill came up for a two-day debate in Parliament, the staid old House of Commons was plunged into such violent turmoil that the chair had to suspend a session for the first time since the Suez dispute...
Last week, on the heels of a desperate declaration by Northeast that it might have to suspend service within days for lack of fuel money, Hughes proposed that Atlas Corp. sell him its controlling interest in the airline. The CAB has never made any secret of its distaste for Hughes, and to invite him back into the airline business would be humiliating indeed. But since no one else seemed prepared to bail Northeast out, to rebuff Hughes would very likely mean that Northeast would become the second major U.S. airline (the first: Capital) to disappear within a year...
GARY: If you want to suspend your reason for a couple of hours and have a whale of a time, take in The Guns of Navarone. If you've heard the music, or even read Alastair MacLean's bestseller, by all means go all the way and plunk down your coins to see Carl Foreman's version. Though unbelievable, it's spectacular, and with shipwrecks, cliff-climbers, saboteurs, informers, captures, escapes, and explosions, (and Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn), how can you lose...
...about all that Newsman Matthews can be proud of in his continued coverage of Cuba. Dazzled from the start by the dashing revolutionary ("I was moved, deeply moved, by that young man"), Matthews fell into the trap that everywhere awaits the unwary reporter: he let emotional bias suspend his judgment. In his eyes. Castro became a hero of whom Matthews can still write today, as he does in The Cuban Story: "I could never bring myself to condemn Fidel Castro outright for what he has done ... I see what is good about [the revolution], how important...