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...only trace of the vanished VIP was the cops' black Ford itself. Somewhat battered, it was found on the road 45 miles from the scene of the escape. Perhaps, suggested the Katangese, Lumumba was trudging through the bush in the hope of reaching Bukamu, a Katanga town held by the pro-Lumumba rebels. But this was 200 miles away, a tough week's walk for a city lad like Lumumba...
...Papers is still delightful stuff for the general reader who prefers to have his Americana unbrainwashed by the biographer. He may even reflect that had Franklin got around to inventing the telephone, as well he might have, most of the fascinating odd bits would have disappeared without trace into the instrument...
...conclusion of Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak wrote, "One day, Lara went out and did not come back. She must have been arrested in the street at that time. She vanished without a trace . . . forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the innumerable mixed or women's concentration camps in the north." Olga Ivinskaya last week was following the course of her fictional self to the bitter...
Ydigoras quickly admitted that Guatemalan troops were receiving special commando training on the plantations, but denied that any Cubans were involved. Combing the area at the time, investigating reporters found that the facts supported Ydigoras: there was no trace of any major Cuban force...
Stock-boosting maneuvers are not always so easy to identify or trace. TelAutograph stock zoomed from 9 to 24 in eight hectic trading days last fall after the company created the impression in a press release that it had a franchise on a machine able to transmit writing over telephone wires. The SEC set the record straight (TelAutograph had the machine, but not the only one of its kind). Three weeks ago Sperry Rand Corp. privately showed a group of stock analysts a new product for a computer, although the official announcement was one week off. The company also sent...