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...needed before entering Texas Christian University. Claudia suddenly sank to the ground. Paul bent over her, then pitched to the sidewalk himself. Both were dead. A block north, Political Scientist Harry Walchuk, 39, a father of six and a teacher at Michigan's Alpena Community College, browsed in the doorway of a newsstand after working all morning in the college library. He was shot dead on the spot. A few steps farther up the street, Senior Thomas Karr, 24, was walking sleepily toward his apartment after staying up almost all night for a 10 a.m. exam when he dropped...
...salute boomed out, British Governor General Sir Glyn Jones waved from the doorway of the Malawi Airways Viscount. A moment later he disappeared inside, and the plane soared northward toward Britain. All alone in the middle of a red carpet stood Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda, waving his fly whisk after the plane. It was a last fond farewell between the two men who had worked together to prepare Malawi for independence in 1964 and for last week's ceremonies, which established Malawi as a republic and Banda as its first President...
...opens, a personable young Indian porter named Galy Gay sets out to buy his wife a fish. The British soon impress him, however, to fill out a four-man machine-gun squad; the man he replaces has been scalped by a doorway while robbing a temple. By the last of the endings, he not only defies his former identity but has become "a human fighting machine...
...kept mum on his own police force's involvement in the kidnaping. And when a French magistrate finally played a tape recording reputed to carry the incriminating testimony of Paris Gangster Georges Figon (a participant in the plot who "committed suicide" just before French cops burst through his doorway), all that was heard was a trite cops-and-robbers script for a movie that Figon was working...
...Jusceli-no! Jusceli-no!" chanted a handkerchief-waving throng of 3,000 at Rio's Galeão international airport. Then from the doorway of an Air France 707 came the man, still trim and agile despite his 63 years, his face split in a toothful smile, his right arm swinging in a familiar jaunty wave. Brazil's former President Juscelino Kubitschek-still admired by the people but loathed as a symbol of corruption by the present revolutionary government-had returned home after 16 months of self-imposed exile. Said he: "I have come back at zero hour...