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More than 2500 students at the University of California at Berkeley ended their marathon sit-down last night, as President Clark Kerr announced that the University would negotiate their demands next Monday...
...hectic courtship in Don Appell's A Girl Could Get Lucky. The Owl and the Pussycat marks a milestone of sorts by casting Negro Actress Diana Sands in a part that has nothing to do with race. Julie Harris, 38, who portrayed 15-year-old June Havoc in Marathon '33, will have another rejuvenating role in Ready When...
...found another driver who had taken a "German businessman" across the border on a rush trip to Remagen-the town where Zech-Nenntwich owns a villa. Münch and Heggemann boldly rang the villa's doorbell and demanded to see Zech-Nenntwich. In a four-day talk marathon, the pair finally persuaded him to surrender to the police, then sped to Hamburg to turn out a 14-page exclusive spread that was certain to help Stern (circulation...
...Mont Rivel suddenly shook, loosing tons of rocks into the shafts. With him were eight fellow workers, most of them younger. "At first we did not dare move," recalled Joseph Cattenoz, 31. "But then André was with us, and he took over." From the first moments of a marathon drama that lasted for more than a week, the short, balding, beak-nosed Martinet was the indispensable man. With him in the lead, the men explored the "room" in which they were trapped: a 144-ft.-long by 15-ft.-high chamber that was cold and damp, its floor under...
...again, with slow-motion photography and telescopic lenses that reveal an athlete's face in stunning closeup, the moment of truth is seized; an Italian cyclist, narrowly losing one contest, bursts into tears; the barefoot Bikila Abebe sprints through torchlit Roman streets to win the 26-mile marathon and Ethiopia's first Olympic gold medal; U.S. Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson consolingly embraces his close friend and runner-up, Taiwan's C. K. Yang. Poignant drama erupts when a Russian pole vaulter disastrously breaks his ankle. There is comedy, too, as a narrator dryly remarks of Britain...