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...aimed at whipping up enthusiasm for his threatened invasion of Nether lands New Guinea, Indonesia's President Sukarno took along a star-studded cast: ten admiring foreign ambassadors, including the U.S.'s Howard Palfrey Jones, Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, a brigade of local beauties. As an unexpected thrill for the crowds along the way, there was even an unsuccessful assassination attempt...
...required information is readily available in this competent, medium-budget version of a trilogy published in 1874 by Jules Verne. It should thrill the gee-whillickers out of anybody willing to settle for a gasbag in a rocket...
...never tried any sport get a strike the first time she ever bowled. That's pure luck. But, for that one ball, she is playing as well as the best bowler in the world. You can't get more than a strike. It's a big thrill, and it's a thing that doesn't happen in most other sports -where the beginner can't do anything right for a long time." Adds" Jack Vaughan, manager of Albuquerque's Bowl-a-Drome: "Where else can a woman compete after she gets married? They...
...black boots and waterproofs, blonde hair stuffed carelessly into a green helmet, pert Jill Savage looked like a B-movie caricature of a reformatory-bound juvenile delinquent. But Cyclist Savage, 23, is more than a thrill-happy young Briton. She is a grim competitor in one of the world's most harrowing and hazardous sports: cross-country motorcycle racing. Fortnight ago, she startled 268 male competitors by winning a bronze medal in motorcycling's most rugged contest: the International Six-Day Motorcycle Trial-a grueling, 1,200-mi. marathon, run through the mountainous backwoods of Wales...
...uninitiated it is quite a thrill to hear sounds coming from points between the two speakers, from where, it seems, nothing should be coming. This is the stereo centre illusion...