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Before dawn one day last week, a company of Panamanian soldiers hopped into landing craft and hit the beach on the Pacific coast of the U.S. Canal Zone. Just after sunup, a company of Brazilian paratroopers tumbled out of U.S. Air Force turboprop transports over the zone after a 500...
"We Were Home." They needed it. Even small wars are not complete without bungles. Brigadier General J. Ford Kent managed to maneuver three regiments, including Private Post and his outfit, onto a single cowpath over which a U.S. observation balloon served as a perfect marker for Spanish firepower. More than...
Bright Future. By selling 10,000 shares (leaving him with 13,740), Romney got $900,000, of which $200,000 went to pay the capital-gains tax, another $200,000 for debts remaining from the first purchase, and $70,000 for tithing to Romney's Mormon church. His net...
Hard Bargains. Western specialists no longer dismiss the differences between Peking and Moscow as some kind of subtle maneuver to confuse the West. But they believe that China's objections to Khrushchev's policy of coexistence with the West are more tactical than strategic.
Sure Palm. The best-or worst-is still to come. At 23, Chamberlain is far from his peak, even with a 37.5-point game average that has hoisted the Warriors from the cellar of the N.B.A.'s Eastern Division in 1959 to a strong second place this year. For...