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...Kirk Douglas) brusquely orders the privates to do it. The first (Robert Walker) refuses. The second (Nick Adams) raises his pistol-but cannot pull the trigger. The sergeant explodes. A private replies: "Why not shoot him yourself, sir? And look him right in the eye." The sergeant, a small-bore sadist, raises his pistol-but he too cannot pull the trigger...
...Gaulle's intransigence undermined NATO? Could Pierre Salinger walk 50 miles? In their cogitation chambers, capital columnists pondered such weighty problems. All but one of the columnists, that is. He climbed into his car one day last week and headed for spring training in Fort Lauderdale. Fla. He bore the improbable name of Shirley Povich and an even more improbable distinction. He not only writes sports for the Washington Post but is also the most popular and most widely read columnist in Washington...
...Tshombe on the way out, Youlou suddenly sailed across the Stanley Pool to make friends with the Leopoldville crowd. Then, looking like a shorter, soutaned version of Sonny Listen, he took off on a five-day tour of the country with Leopoldville's President Joseph Kasavubu. The Congolese bore no grudge. The day Youlou left for home, school was canceled in Leopoldville so the children could line his departure route...
...first glimpse, it certainly bore all the signs of a U.S.-Soviet deal. First the news broke that Premier Khrushchev, in a se cret letter to President Kennedy, had agreed to remove the biggest obstacle to a nuclear test-ban treaty by permitting on-site inspections in Russia. Soon afterward, the U.S. confirmed that it was preparing to dismantle its Jupiter base in Turkey, the very thing that Khrushchev had demanded when the U.S. forced him to get his medium-range missiles out of Cuba, and its bases in Italy...
Severe Handicap. But if the strike was a bore, it was also a painfully expensive one. The American Newspaper Guild ran out of money and had to borrow $300,000 from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. New York Local 6 of the International Typographical Union slapped a $3 weekly assessment on all 6,000 of its working members-those employed by commercial print shops and therefore unaffected by the strike. New York Newspaper Printing Pressmen Local 2 hopefully brought suit against the New York Post, the Herald Tribune and the Mirror, asking $72,000 in lost pay and other benefits. Since these...