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...central Viet Nam in March 1967. He defended the wounded with a borrowed rifle, killing four attackers and silencing a machine gun. Summoning help, he dragged the injured men to safety through a storm of fire. > Navy Boatswain's Mate First Class James E. Williams, 37, is the unlikeliest-looking hero. He is a roly-poly father of five with 20 years of Navy service. In October 1966, in a Mekong River backwater, Williams led two patrol boats into a mass of sampans and junks loaded with Viet Cong troopers. Outnumbered and outgunned, the patrol sank 28 sampans, damaged...
London's Daily Telegraph called it "Britain's unlikeliest colony." Mauritius, a speck of land in the Indian Ocean 1,400 miles off the African coast, fell to Britain 158 years ago during the Napoleonic wars. Since then, it has cost dearly: a $60-a-ton subsidy on the island's only crop (sugar), almost $8,000,000 in budget support last year alone, and the necessity of moving in troops every time the country's Hindus, Moslems, Chinese and French-speaking Creoles decide to quarrel. No wonder Britain felt relief last week when independence finally...
...there they were last week, the Brooklyn Eagles and the New Haven Sentinels, playing for the title in the dead of winter in just about the unlikeliest stadium imaginable: the dining room of the Fairfield (Conn.) Motor Inn. And on a gridiron that was precisely 1 ft. 7½ in. long and 1 ft. 2½ in. wide...
...little girl lost behind a battered big-bellied guitar. Her dusky face, framed by a cascade of raven hair that spills across her shoulders and down to her waist, seems frozen in mournful repose. In a throaty voice edged with anguish, she sings some of the unlikeliest lyrics ever heard in a nightclub: But where in the history books is the tale Of genocide basic to this country's birth, Of the preachers who lied, How the Bill of Rights failed...
...blackout tried everyone's resources?and few would admit defeat. In stalled elevators and trains, passengers improvised games, including one whose object was to suggest the unlikeliest partners for stalled elevator cars (samples: Jean-Paul Sartre and Norman Vincent Peale; Defense Secretary McNamara and a draft-card burner; any Con Edison executive and any New York housewife). Trapped office workers improvised candles with copies of Book Week and rubber cement...