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...observers figured in the past that Taft was a cinch to clobber Young. But as of last week, the Taft-Young race was surprisingly tight. Taft's big worry is not Steve Young but Barry Goldwater. who could lose Ohio by such a whopping margin that he might drag Taft down to defeat...
...avail. The exodus began. Thousands of weeping Brazzavillians-many of whom had lived in Leopoldville all their lives-were shoved in groups of 150 aboard chartered ferries and shuttled across the two miles of muddy brown river to Brazzaville. With them were all the possessions they could carry or drag...
When Joseph Stalin was running things, the Kremlin had only to bark a command and heels clicked throughout the Communist world. Now the heels are more likely to drag. Nowhere was the fraying discipline of once-monolithic world Communism more clearly illustrated last week than in a Pravda editorial that all Communists had been awaiting for months...
...Sophie Daumier, 27, lives with her ten-year-old son Philippe ("His father? Bah, a boy who wasn't worth marrying") and Actor Guy Bedos. A onetime toe dancer, she made ten films before last year's Dragées au Poivre (Sweet and Sour) established Sophie as "the most exuberant comic of the Nouvelle Vague." The latest Bedos-Daumier hit, Aimez-Vous les Femmes?, is a comedy about cannibalism; the piece de resistance is Sophie au naturel...
...French for "little arrows," the darts are about as thick as pencil leads and an inch or so long. They have tiny fins or thin tails to make them fly straight, and their needle-sharp points allow them to move through the air like supersonic aircraft with much less drag than short, fat, traditional bullets. Several can be fired from the same cartridge, but Army experts prefer to use one per cartridge and have the gun fire three flechettes automatically in quick succession. The darts are easily deflected by wind, brush or even leaves, and when they hit an enemy...