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...number of Negroes-and just as predictably, Connor reverted to form. He broke up a march on city hall by ordering mass arrests. "Call the wagons, Sergeant, I'm hungry," barked Bull. Next day he called out his police dogs. A 19-year-old Negro youth took a swipe at one with a clay pipe. The dog turned on the boy, and a crowd of Negroes surged forward, one carrying a knife. It took some 15 cops and their dogs to break up the melee...
...guess where the money went. Tshombe's own Katangese officials had withdrawn huge sums of money without troubling to leave receipts. One unnamed official waltzed off with 133 million Katangese francs (worth $2,660,000 at the official exchange rate of 50 to $1 ) in a single swipe. Some 4,000 gold coins valued at $280,000 were smuggled to Geneva for sale by a European syndicate. There was evidence that the bank had transferred 1 billion francs to a branch 150 miles away in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, to buy arms and pay mercenaries...
...speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower, shifted to Rockefeller in 1960. But in such work, he says, he missed the pleasure of speaking his own mind. He has already written America the Vincible, a turgid criticism of Eisenhower's foreign policy; now he is prepared to take another public swipe at his old boss with a new book, Eisenhower: A Political Memoir, to be published next spring. In an excerpt in the current issue of Look, Ike emerges as a testy and shallow ex-general, contemptuous of Adlai Stevenson ("that monkey"), dubious of Richard Nixon ("I just haven...
...training since the first week in May, he has trimmed his 6-ft. 1-in. frame down to 220 Ibs. of bulging muscle, and he is one man who knows his own strength. Liston literally has knocked the stuffing out of a 45-lb. punching bag with one swipe of his right fist. He laughs disdainfully while Trainer Reddish slams a 12-lb. medicine ball into his stomach. In The Pines' steam room one day, Liston picked up a 50-lb. weight with his right hand, casually tossed it up over his head and caught it with his left...
Recent issues of Christianity Today have included an impressive sample of the kind of alert religious reporting and comment that makes the magazine indispensable-if often irritating-reading in manses and seminaries across the U.S. One editorial took a rough swipe at clerical complacency, and then lambasted a recent Vatican statement that Protestants could achieve church unity by returning to the Catholic fold. The issue now going to press runs a long survey of religion in non-Communist Europe based on reports of some of its 37 foreign correspondents. The general consensus: materialist, religiously indifferent Europe is ripe for evangelical...