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From Ascension Island, where they had been in readiness for a week, the paracommandos flew in 14 U.S.-piloted C-130s to Katanga's giant Ka-mina Military Base and thence toward their target. Below the gaping jump-hatches, the Congo wound broad and tawny through black-green bush; the tin and tile roofs of Stanleyville shone pink in the early light. "Stan," as it is known to both black and white, is the most African town of the Congo. The "Inner Station" of Conrad's Heart...
...Open, he wound up with a dismal tie for 23rd. He thus did not qualify for the four-man World Series of Golf, an unofficial "exhibition" that used to be his private preserve: two years running, he had tak'en home the winner's purse of $50,000-biggest check in golf. His money came mostly in dribs and drabs, ranging from a low of $475 in the U.S. Open to $24,042 for winning Pennsylvania's Whitemarsh Open. Added up, it came to a pretty penny-but it was a tough way to make 100 grand...
...Harris, Kennedy's favorite pollster in 1960, reported on a national survey indicating that 35% of the people miss Kennedy more now than they did a year ago, that 35% have no strong feelings, and that 30% believe that "time is healing the wound." Nearly five-dozen books about Kennedy or his assassination are on the market. West Germany proudly issued a new J.F.K. postage stamp last week, but tiny Sierra Leone had already achieved an insurmountable lead in that category by printing 14 different Kennedy stamps in the last year. A bronze bust of Kennedy by Sculptor Felix...
Leverett was one of three House teams to beat their Yale opponents. Two Harvard squads lost to Yale, and an extraordinary four games wound up tied...
...Greenwood), vacationing at a sunny village inn, meet a spirited young English compatriot (Peter McEnery). Enter Eli Wallach, as the swarthy Greek villain who knows that Peter knows too much about a jewel theft back in London, and the plot begins to fizz. Peter turns up, with a bullet wound, in an ancient spooky crypt. Hayley skips to the rescue. Showing an appetite for danger that 007 himself might envy, she is bound and gagged in a rat-infested granary, makes a wild leap to freedom on the rotating vanes of a windmill, cracks a rifle butt over a thug...