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...aiming shrill protests at "violation of East German sovereignty" by Western planes. Possibly even more significant than these propaganda noises were the sounds picked up by Western airline pilots heading into Berlin: on their radios, they heard occasional interfering signals, as if the Communists were testing jamming devices to knock out the planes' radio navigation. Some crews reported East German searchlights on them. And one afternoon last week, Pan American's Flight No. 609, flying well in the center of the northern corridor to Hamburg, spotted a Soviet MIG-17 fighter with six rockets under each wing soaring...
...part. Motivations are inept and mystifying. Her people are all of a piece or all in pieces. What redeems some of these flaws is the special McCullers gift, the moment of high emotion when a lonely soul rapping on the wall of his imprisoned self hears an answering knock...
Alcohol for Solvency. "Nuxated Iron" made Jess Willard strong, then made Jack Dempsey strong enough to knock out Willard. A stomacher of unspecified construction and called the "Parr English Pad" was proclaimed "a certain cure for all malarial or contagious diseases." Manhattan's William Radam blandly said that his microbe killer "cures all diseases...
...boat. Said he, in a formal statement: "We recognize the paramount responsibility we have as American citizens, and in an effort to demonstrate national unity, we are relinquishing our equity in the Cuban gunboat." But he insisted that his legal rights had been overridden: "You can't knock out due process of law by a press statement from the State Department." In a land of law, he had quite a point...
...morning last week, in the little town of Sosúa (pop. 10,000) on the Dominican north coast. Dr. Alejo Martinez, 32, a physician, answered a knock on his door. Submachine guns chattered, and Martinez fell dead on the porch. About the same time, in downtown Sosúa, a telephone call sent an office clerk named Pedro Clisante, 28, put-putting away on his motorbike on an errand that would take him past a military post. As Clisante approached, a soldier blasted him off his bike. Two days earlier, near the provincial capital of Santiago, Epedio...