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Convict Robert Pennell, 26, was trimming tree limbs with a North Carolina prison road gang last month when he stumbled over a small hole. Falling forward, he stuck out his left hand to catch himself, just as a fellow prisoner swung a sharp ax. The swipe accidentally chopped off Pennell's hand at the wrist. One prisoner fashioned a tourniquet from a shoestring and a stick to keep him from bleeding to death, while another gingerly picked up the severed hand and wrapped it in a handkerchief. Pennell was rushed to North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Packed...
...learned his lesson, Liston won't be in a frantic hurry to dispose of Clay tonight. He will stalk his man, trying to conserve his energy for the fifteen-round cat and mouse game, and wait patiently for the opportunity to break Clay in half with one swipe of his left hand...
...Republic, and a spokesman disclosed that "France disapproves and wants the withdrawal of troops who have landed in Santo Domingo." He underscored his virtual withdrawal from SEATO by sending only an observer to last week's SEATO conference in London. Running out of targets, he even took a swipe at Britain's commitment to defend Malaysia if Sukarno's Indonesia ever decides to carry out its threat to "crush" the new nation...
...fighters. Clad in black cotton bellbottoms, draped with carbines and bandoleers, each of them wearing a tattoo that reads Sat Cong ("Kill Communists") on their chests, the "junkmen" look like tough customers. They have girls in every port, they dine on grilled octopus stewed in rotten fish sauce, they swipe fish from passing customers, and they claim to have searched 200,000 boats last year. But of the 830,000 persons aboard, only 1,850 were arrested, a mere 21 confirmed as Viet Cong infiltrators...
...Erhard felt it appropriate to invite a reporter from the West German press agency down for a chat at his vacation retreat in Bavaria, and there the conversation got around to reunification too. "What really counts," said Erhard, "is that we develop a continuous initiative." He added, in a swipe at the Socialists' advocacy of "small and medium steps" (such as the Easter passes): "Let us not fall prey to the self-deception that reunification can be reached with inadequate technical means...