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Live in a swamp and be three-dimensional...
DIED. Manuel Artime, 45, silver-tongued Cuban physician and leader of the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961; of cancer; in Miami. Captured in a swamp two weeks after the landing failed, he was ransomed for $500,000 by the U.S. in 1962. He later led several commando raids on radar stations, sugar mills and other Cuban targets...
...major parties had little to crow about, but not much to complain about either. They split the two gubernatorial races. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Brendan Byrne, whose self-effacing campaign style consists of a strained smile and straight-arm salute, came from way behind to swamp Republican State Senator Ray Bateman, who tripped up in trying to propose an alternative to the unpopular state income tax. Virginia's Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton easily moved up in rank by beating Democrat "Howlin' " Henry Howell, a big-business-baiting populist who can make the Lord...
DIED. Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, raucous rock group that called its music "Southern raunchy roll"; when their chartered airplane crashed in a swamp near McComb, Miss. Among the six people killed were Lead Singer Ronnie Van Zant, Guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister Cassie, a vocalist with the group. All three were 28. Their latest album, Street Survivors, had just been released...
There was only one reason why anyone in their right mind would stand in the pouring rain at Soldier's Field swamp yesterday watching the Harvard freshmen drop a 22-20 decision to their counterparts from Dartmouth: Paul Connors...