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Taking advantage of a complex draft rule then in effect, they snatched Clemente away for a cut-rate $4,000, and the Dodgers lost a superstar-to say nothing of untold pennants...
...seven months, NASA scientists will be watching to see whether their spaceship can pass unharmed through the 175 million-mile-wide asteroid belt. The greatest danger may not come from any of the 1,831 charted asteroids that range in diameter from one mile to 480 miles, but from untold numbers of tiny fragments, some of them no bigger than a grain of talcum powder. At typical asteroid speeds (30,000 m.p.h.), such minuscule bullets could easily puncture one of Pioneer's vital parts...
...hair at all. Elvis, however, still sounds and looks almost like 1957. His hair, to be sure, is a little less shiny, and the famous Presley pout, an expression of his nearly platonic narcissism, has been replaced by the genial smile of acceptance and affluence. After 32 movies and untold millions in box-office receipts and record sales, Elvis at 37 is in many ways bigger than ever...
...verdant, mountainous beauty, the tiny African nation of Burundi (pop. 4,000,000) has a bloodied and tragic history. Untold thousands have been killed in both Burundi and its neighboring sister-state of Rwanda during periodic tribal wars involving the Hutu majority and the tall, legendary Tutsi overlords. Last week Burundi was recovering from a brief but violent civil war that left an estimated 10,000 dead -including the country's last Tutsi King-and at least 500,000 homeless...
...drown in blood the desire of the Greek people to live free in an independent Greece, governed by the people for the people. The defeat of the popular liberation struggle against British and, later, American intervention during the Civil War of 1944-1949 was followed by a period of untold sacrifices by the people in their effort to achieve some degree of democracy and of independent economic growth. The Right found itself unable to contain the growing movement of the democratic forces in Greece. The coup of 1967 was designed to secure the endangered rule of the right-wing oligarchy...