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...level. Says Physicist Herman Kahn: "With the kind of technology that is likely to be available in 1969, it may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and technical Hottentot it is true, would be able to make bombs." Added a U.S. atomic-energy official: "The cat's out of the bag now and I see no way to put it back...
...watch fob; the horse thief who won Bill's admiration by running 18 miles barefoot through snow and prickly pear; the U.S. Cavalry troop with which Bill rode and whose main commissary item was a five-gallon demijohn of whisky and Old Tom Cat gin; the Indian called Young Man Afraid of His Horses. There are the fascinating photographs and lithos, including one of Buffalo Bill with 10 correspondents covering the Indian wars-the war correspondents wearing their own scalps and, in the tradition of their calling, looking far more bellicose than Combatant Cody...
...into Paris after a two-month jam session in Africa as good-will ambassador for Pepsi-Cola and the State Department, leather-lunged Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong confided to the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald that the Congo-for Satchmo, anyway-is as safe as a cat's own front porch. "Half the times I didn't know whether I was in the Congo or out of it," graveled Armstrong. "Them African places all look alike. But Léopoldville was great. I had three armies escorting me everywhere I went. There was the United...
...CAPTAIN CAT, by Robert Holles. An English novel, rich with lowest-class slang, in which two rebels at a military-cum-reform school discover that boyish idealism is no match for The System and the venom of original sin in which their regimented mates are steeped...
...actuaries some years ago decided that Clark Gable was the best risk in films, Elizabeth Taylor the worst by a wide margin. Making Raintree County four years ago, she wore a tight, Kodiak sort of corset that induced a hyperventilation syndrome ($45,299). For minor illnesses in Giant and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, she cost Fireman's Fund some $75,000. And now Lloyd's and the other underwriters are trying to decide whether they will reinstate Cleopatra's coverage. If they do not, the picture may never be finished. Insurance men made an interim...