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Anybody who stands 7 ft. l½ in. tall makes a pretty good target, and Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain has taken his share of abuse from fans (who holler "goon" and "freak") and sportswriters (who call him a poor team player). Wilt's answers take up most of the space in the National Basketball Association's record book. He has scored as many as 100 points in a single night. He also has taken more shots at the basket (63), sunk more free throws (28) and collected more rebounds (55) in one game than anybody else. Last week...
Cubans have long been accustomed to their Maximum Leader's vicious verbal attacks on the U.S. Last week they were delighted when he shifted his biting invective to a surprise target: Red China. In Havana's Communist daily Granma,* Fidel Castro spelled out the whole ugly story of how Peking had not only "committed a criminal act of economic aggression" by reducing its 1966 rice shipments to Cuba, but had also sent huge amounts of propaganda material into the country in an attempt to enlist the army for Peking's espionage purposes. "We have liberated ourselves from...
...target, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., is not merely the world's largest corporation but traditionally the bluest of blue-chip investments. The Bell System has the most stockholders (2.8 million), the most shares of stock outstanding (530 million), and the highest total stock value ($31 billion) of any firm listed on any exchange. So many of those shares are owned by widows and elderly couples that the FCC attack on "Ma Bell" has stirred up the same sort of popular resentment as an assault on motherhood itself. "I have stacks and stacks of letters from people asking...
...scene is Norway, the subject sabotage. Richard Harris plays a man of action, Kirk Douglas a scientist whom he lures into anti-Nazi resistance work. They spend two and a half hours of film time launching just two sabotage efforts. Their target is a factory that makes "heavy water" for atomic tests...
...Operation White Wing, mounted by 12,000 men of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry, Vietnamese airborne and South Korean marines, the first division-size assault of the war. Target: the longtime Viet Cong strongholds between Qui Nhon and Chu Lai along the South China...