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...determined tug of war has been going on behind the scenes in Brazil's revolutionary government. On one side stands little (5 ft. 5 in.) President Humberto Castello Branco and those who prefer to deal with corruption and subversion by constitutional methods. On the other side range the linha dura (hardline) military men who want to continue the star-chamber purges that Castello Branco ended after six months (TIME, Oct. 16). Last week Castello Branco gave in to the linha dura in order to get on with the important business of saving Brazil from economic ruin...
...also trying the method, and 48 Lockheed C-130 transports have been modified with the forks and winches needed for Skyhook lifts. "I've never experienced anything like it in my military career," says Special Forces veteran Sergeant First Class Johnny Dolin. "First there is a slight tug at the shoulders, then you're soaring through the air like a bird...
...weeks campaigning has become a labor of love for the diminutive ex-Governor. After three hours of glad-handing, Volpe may announce disgustedly that "you have to be crazy to do this stuff." But he doesn't mean it. Recovering in a few moments, he will clap his hands, tug on his nose, and demand impatiently, "What's next? Come on, come...
...friendly glint. At the slightest sound of applause, Murphy is transported happily back to the heyday, 25 years ago, when he song-and-danced his way across the nation's cinema screens. Then the ham in him surfaces, and he talks and talks and talks until his aides tug at him and tell him it is time to quit...
Thousands packed the Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin shores, and more than 100 small boats followed in pursuit, as three contenders puffed along in the first commercial riverboat race on the upper Mississippi in modern times, a six-mile feature of the Dubuque summer festival. The tug Coal Queen took an early lead, but the Mary soon pulled ahead, leaving the excursion liner Julie N. Dubuque II to finish third. Owner of the Coal Queen was Iowa's poet of the pajama game, Author-Playwright Richard Bissell, 51, a Harvardman you can always tell will go along gamely with whatever...