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...days later, smarting under an attack that they refused to admit had succeeded, the Egyptians scrambled jets to attack Israeli troops on the Sinai side of the Suez Canal. All told, Cairo claimed, 102 Egyptian planes were in the air. They were challenged by Israeli pilots, and a swirl of dogfights began. Before darkness ended the fighting, Israel claimed eleven Egyptian planes downed against only one of its own. The total was the biggest for a single day since the '67 war, and brought total Egyptian postwar losses to 51. Egypt maintained that it shot down six Israeli planes...
...that he was driving plunged from Dike Bridge?carrying his only passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, to a death by drowning?Kennedy failed to notify police. After his first brief and inadequate statement at the station house, his silence allowed time for both honest questions and scurrilous gossip to swirl around his reputation and his future. Only once did the Senator leave the harried seclusion of the Kennedy compound at Hyannisport?when he flew to the funeral at Plymouth, Pa., still wearing a neck brace he received after the accident...
WIGGINS FORK is best, ARTIC SWIRL is second best, PROSPECT STREET is strong but moving up in class...
...years since. Such considerable aura as the British crown still has for Britons and the rest of the world is largely the residual glow from the past. It emanates from the legends and lives of England's kings, evoking images of silver trumpets raised on lofty battlements, the colored swirl of pennants and the flashing swords on Bosworth Field, and all the pageantry that still occasionally stirs in modern Western man the memories of his medieval passage...
...show demonstrates, the major figures were highly individual artists. Perhaps their only unifying characteristic was exuberance-exuberance of size, exuberance of gesture. Instead of the carefully calculated stroke, there was the swirl of Pollock's drip paintings, the splattered brilliance of Willem de Kooning's terrifying women. Franz Kline's huge black-on-white compositions showed no more sophistication than a Chinese ideograph, but they conveyed the energy of the man that made them-and commanded a whole wall rather than a corner of a scroll. The smoldering color clouds of Mark Rothko drew a viewer...