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Arms Deal. To prove the government's continued dedication to neutralism, Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan stood up in Parliament last week to announce details of a new $210 million arms deal with Moscow for three squadrons of MIG-21 supersonic jet fighters, plus an assortment of other military hardware and help in building a complete MIG assembly plant. And Shastri himself was preparing to leave the Indian subcontinent for the first time in his life, to fly to Cairo for next week's meeting of the nonaligned bloc in which Nehru had been such a towering figure...
Another ticklish problem was what to do about the U.S.-owned International Petroleum Co., which has been operating the rich La Brea y Pariañs basin for 50 years under a series of contracts that many Peruvians consider unfair and illegal. Last year Belaúnde's government canceled the contracts amid leftist cries for an outright takeover. Belaúnde refused, and last week he was hammering out the final details of a new contract that will keep I.P.C. in Peru but give the government a greater share of profits...
Irish, d'y'see, is the word for Ginger Coffey, and at a guess most people put him down as a prosperous Irish squire. Most people, more's the pity, are dead wrong. Behind the mighty mustache hides a terrified tyke. Inside the classy tweeds lives a Mick Micawber who can't keep a job, can't feed his family, can't face the comitragic truth about himself. In his careful and intelligent novel, a bestseller in 1960, and now again in the careful and intelligent script he has written for this film, Author...
Soon after noon, he drawled to reporters in his office, "Y'all want to take a walk today?" Two days earlier, Lyndon had worn them all out by hiking around the White House's quarter-mile oval driveway a record nine times. But the reporters still chorused "Yes!" So started what the press later dubbed "the Death March...
...touchdown, booted two field goals and four extra points, and the Packers trounced the Giants, 34-10. The Giant switchboard lit up with wailing calls from fans who had seen it on TV. New York sportswriters loaded the papers with stories patiently reminding everyone that Star Quarterback Y. A. Tittle hadn't played much, and that Allie was "satisfied...