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...panted: "It was like I was throwin' punches at the water and the water kept hittin' back. My big aim was to keep from drownin'." The Cincinnati Reds' Johnny Bench was a more serious competitor in the golf tournament. But two drives into a mangrove swamp erased his early lead and he finished second to Stefanich, who posted a 41 for the nine-hole event...
...then I saw it-the bloated body of a huge Negro, floating face up in his fatigues with bandoleers of ammunition still looped around his shoulders. He had been shot the day before during a combat assault against some forgotten bit of swamp. Almost in shock, I helped drag the corpse on board and into a body bag. The only other corpse I had ever seen was that of a distant and elderly relative in an open-casket funeral service in Virginia. The nonchalance of the sailor was almost as dissonant as the confrontation with the dead man. I soon...
Amilcar Cabral, 48, was something of a rarity among revolutionaries-soft-spoken, moderate and a reluctant convert to violence. He claimed to be a friend of the Portuguese, whom he was successfully driving out of Guinea-Bissau, a Switzerland-size chunk of West African swamp and jungle. There was nothing moderate, though, in the manner of his death. Two weeks ago he was gunned down as he walked with his wife and a bodyguard outside a borrowed villa in Conakry, the capital of neighboring Guinea. The bodyguard was also killed; Mrs. Cabral survived...
...being released in America, in the wake of the wide acclaim for Bertolucci's The Conformist and in anticipation of the brouhaha over Last Tango in Paris (TIME cover, Jan. 22). Perhaps Tango may not SO much sweep up The Spider's Stratagem in its wake as swamp it. The Spider's Stratagem boasts no superstars in the cast, no odor of brimstone and no heavy hype. It should not need them. Less exotic than The Conformist or Tango, certainly more subtle and contained. The Spider's Strata gem is Bertolucci's best movie...
...relay teams--the most promising races in the Cliffe's season-opening performance--were once again on the mark. Costin, Cervilla and Sato teamed up with Senior Jeannie Drew and Junior Laura Lennihan to swamp competitors in the 200-yd. medley and free-style relays...