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...aboard a Pan American jet to New York; once in the U.S., he would at last begin serving the life sentence he got for turning national secrets over to the Soviets. But the ambulance never got to the plane: Soblen had swallowed a great wallop of barbiturates and collapsed on the way. Unconscious, he was rushed to Hillingdon Hospital-and his enforced return to the U.S. was off again. The delay was only the latest of Soblen's ingenious, utterly determined efforts to thwart U.S. justice...
Today, the tale of Tristan's illicit love affair with Isolde, bride of his uncle, King Marke, and of the lovers deaths-Tristan from a dueling wound and Isolde from grief-no longer packs the emotional wallop it had for Wagner's generation. Indifferently played, the familiar music sometimes has an almost soporific effect. But at the Bayreuth Festival last week, audiences responded to a stunning new Tristan und Isolde that gave Wagner's paean to love some of the shock value it must have had when its composer trembled for his hearers' sanity...
...Bingo! There she goes-and what a wallop. Everyone felt...
California's usually reliable Mervin Field poll indicated last week that Dick Nixon would wallop former Governor Goodwin J. Knight in the 1962 Republican gubernatorial primary 77% to 12%, and that both Nixon and Knight could beat incumbent Democratic Governor Pat Brown in the election-Nixon by 48% to 38% and Knight...
...whole conference, there is not a single patsy. "On any given Saturday," says Michigan's Coach Elliott, "the weakest team in the league can wallop you. There are no breathers; there's no time to recover. Every game is rough...