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Paroled in 1943 after serving only 2¼ years, Sands, then 23, embarked on a lusty round-the-world odyssey. He sailed the wartime Pacific as a merchant seaman, made up for the years of prison-enforced sexual abstinence in a ten-day romp with an American Red Cross girl in Calcutta, worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia, dug for diamonds in Venezuela, managed five jungle airports for Panagra in Bolivia, became a skilled pilot and a top-rated sports-car driver...
...housing project. "We've just broken ground on that one over there." He turns to the maps with their probing lines thrusting east from the Pacific. "You know," he mutters, putting his finger on a village deep in the towering Andes, "that used to be a ten-day trip on horseback-five days in and five days out. This June, I'm going there in a few hours...
...religious practice by party members. A number of government officials formally congratulated Archbishop Franjo Seper of Zagreb after the announcement that he would be made a cardinal at Pope Paul's consistory next week. Monsignor Casaroli reported that he was "very satisfied" with the results of a recent ten-day visit to Belgrade, and Vatican officials hint that a formal agreement with Tito may be signed as early as March...
...Crimson went into the tournament against Rochester and Fordham with only two days of practice after a ten-day break. It lost 73-71 to Rochester on a desperation shot with the score tied in the last second of play. The Harvard five dropped a 63-55 decision to Fordham after blowing an eight point halftime lead...
Ford's Mustang, introduced only last April, has become one of the hottest selling brand-new models in history. In August's second ten-day selling period, it ranked in third place among all auto sales for the first time - behind only the standard Chevrolet and Ford. And it is still galloping. Last week Ford announced that Mustang sales in August reached 35,299, the highest for any month. Sales so far: 132,905, which have provided the extra horsepower to boost Ford's share of the total auto market by one and a half points...