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...rugged (6 ft. 3 in., 190 lbs.) lad, whose rippling biceps seem to make visible bulges on the television screen. The son of a Bronx truck driver, Rocky grew up in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, played ball just across the street in Macomb's Dam Park. Naturally, the Yankees were his boyhood heroes. Naturally, the Yankees gave him a tryout when he was only 16, but let him get away when the Indians topped the Yankees' half-hearted bid with a still modest offer of $3,000. Last year, in his second full season with Cleveland...
...they had dodged and fought blank-firing Aggressor troops (Russian-like insignia and uniforms) across 50 miles of tangled underbrush. By map and compass they traveled at night, kept on alert all day (about two hours' sleep each), set off live explosive near TVA's Blue Ridge Dam. For food they had one C-ration can, a share in a live chicken. (New problem for the city-bred: how to kill and cook it.) They had learned in earlier problems to live on snake meat in Florida's Everglades, cross open country on a run (about five...
...China's bullying behavior forced all eyes in its direction. When Nehru last week journeyed to the Nepalese border to dedicate a new dam that is being started on the raging Kosi River, a crowd of 100,000 gathered to hail him and Nepal's youthful King Mahendra, 38. Afterward, the two leaders conferred for several hours. King Mahendra fears Nepal may be the next victim of Red China's aggression, is well aware that on Communist maps his mountain-locked country is shown as Chinese territory. In the desperate hope that Moscow might have a restraining...
...Kaiser plan, masterminded by ten experts who hopscotched the country for six weeks, foresees harnessing the power of the crocodile-infested Volta River to work aluminum plants. First step is to build a 230-ft.-high dam near Kosombo (see map), 60 miles northeast of Accra, then add two satellite dams. They would generate 974,000 kw. (100 times as much as produced now in Ghana), back up a man-made lake that would equal the world's biggest (3,500 sq. mi.), which itself would create a new fishing industry to improve the protein-shy Ghanaian diet. Cost...
...complicating factor in Hungary-which doubtless made Moscow bold-was that simultaneously the West was involved in the tragic affair of Suez. The buildup to Suez: 1) Dulles angered Egypt's Dictator Nasser when he pulled back U.S. aid from the Aswan Dam in retaliation for Nasser's acceptance of Red arms; 2) Nasser seized the Suez Canal; 3) Dulles tried with U.S. allies, with the U.N., to work out a solution and failed. But when Britain, France and Israel launched a sudden attack against Egypt without notice to the U.S., Dulles took the toughest stand for principle...