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Pagodas of Sand. At 63, U Nu is opening yet another round in one of Asia's longest-running contests for power. The moonfaced, celibate Buddhist monk became the Union of Burma's first Premier when the country gained independence from Britain in 1948. He was gentle and compassionate, but he was also a sucker for a motley assortment of stargazers; one legendary day, presumably with appropriate astrological advice, he ordered 60,000 pagodas to be constructed-all of sand. The egregious corruption of his regime angered Burma's small middle class, and when he established Buddhism...
...cliff in their first climb together. Harding, 46, and Caldwell, 27, hauled 300 pounds of equipment. They averaged only 150 ft. each day, screwing expansion bolts into the wall as they inched their way upward. The ascent-originally scheduled to take twelve days-stretched into the longest continuous effort in the history of rock climbing in Yosemite...
...Burt, 22; Dwight Armstrong, 19, and his brother Karleton, 24, a former Wisconsin student. Black Militant H. Rap Brown, 27, made the list after he failed to appear before a Maryland court last May for trial on charges of inciting to riot and arson during a 1967 demonstration. The longest search has been for Cameron Bishop, 28, charged with the 1969 dynamiting of electric power lines that supplied Colorado defense plants...
...touchdown. A short while later, he drilled a short pass to his fullback for another score. Soon after that, he coolly dropped back into his own end zone, then rifled the ball half the length of the field for another score on a play that covered 96 yds. -the longest pass play in Stanford history. That gave Plunkett a career total of 6,570 yds. in total offense and made him the greatest yardage gainer in N.C.A.A. history. He has since topped the 7,000-yd. mark, completing 132 passes and twelve touchdowns for the season...
...prison: Jack Strickland, 28, who was sentenced two months ago to four years for alleged border violations and supposedly trying to slip East Germans out of their walled-in country; Lyle Jenkins, 30, who drew 2½ years on similar charges; and Mark Huessy, 21. who is serving the longest term of all. Six weeks ago. Huessy drew a seven-year term for slandering the Communist regime...