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...every paper in Peking last week. CHAIR MAN MAO ENJOYS A SWIM IN THE YANGTZE, read the identical headlines. At an annual swimming meet on July 16 in the city of Wuhan, the 72-year-old "greatest leader of the people of the world" had trod "firmly" down the gangplank of a motor launch in the Yangtze, "with glowing ruddy cheeks and in buoyant spirits." There, in the presence of "tens of thousands," Mao Tse-tung swam and floated nine miles downstream in 65 minutes, talking politics at times with a provincial party secretary and even pausing to give...
Floating Zoo. Last week Huston was functioning furiously in both guises. As Noah, with a full grey beard and wearing a coarse beige tunic, he was striding up and down the gangplank of the $300,000 ark made of roughhewn logs. As director, he moved inside the 200-ft.-long, 60-ft.-high ark-one of five to be used in the film-to supervise 200 animals that had been brought down over the Alps from Althoffs Circus and were undergoing their first try at bedding down...
...lions and Siberian tigers in their glassed-in cages. Elsewhere in the hold, zebras nipped, sheep bleated, yaks grunted and Watusi bulls bellowed. But the real test is yet to come. This week the whole zoo, accompanied by some 1,000 birds, will make its way up the gangplank, two by two. "My God," groaned Huston, "how the hell did Noah...
...delegation and from a band of uninvited demonstrators. Exuding good will, the boss of Yugoslavia extended his best wishes to the American people "for their well-being and further progress, and also to express my hope that normal friendly relations marked by stability will prevail." With that, the gangplank was raised, the Rotterdam tooted goodbye, the pickets lowered their standards, and the U.S. State Department sighed with relief...
...Star in Santos, Brazil's eyes were on the chaos he had created. Only newsmen and a few curious bystanders stood at dockside to watch him go. Enigmatic and emotional as ever, he told the reporters, "They are forcing me out. I will return." As he mounted the gangplank and the lines were dropped, he shook with sobs...