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...news itself was no shock; it had been expected. Engle had been bedridden much of the time since he under went surgery last August. The onetime cowpoke, amateur boxer and licensed pilot had served eight terms as Congressman from California's huge (53,-400 sq. mi.) Second District, had walloped ex-Governor Goodwin Knight by 600,000 votes in the 1958 race for the Senate, but had withdrawn this year because of his illness. That cleared the way for Salinger to make his successful primary...
There was both defiance and despair in that cry, for Central Harlem is no place like home. It occupies only a 3.5-sq.-mi. wedge of upper Manhattan, but 232,000 people are packed into it, 94% of them black. Its worst streets are so crowded that if the same density prevailed throughout New York City the entire population of the U.S. could be jammed into just three of its five boroughs. It seethes with life and frequently boils over in violence. Its drug addiction rate is ten times higher than New York City's, twelve times higher than...
...navy motorboats bring 30-man platoons across the 50-mile Mediterranean stretch; they are regularly watched by a Swedish U.N. infantry company that has its headquarters in full view of the shore. In all, some 500 Turkish soldiers have landed there, helping to secure a solidly held 30-sq.-mi. area-an ideal beachhead in case a major Turkish troop intervention should be decreed by Ankara...
...Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 28: the British and European Grand Prix with a record average 94.14 m.p.h. over the twisting 80-lap, 212-mi. course at Brands Hatch, England. In his green factory Lotus, Clark spurted into the lead at the start, was never headed and took the checkered flag just 2.8 sec. ahead of fellow Briton Graham Hill in a thrilling dice that saw the two zipping around nose to tailpipe for most of the race. The win, Clark's third in five Grands Prix so far, gave last year's world champion a total...
...France's Jacques Anquetil, 30: the Tour de France bicycle race for an unparalleled fourth straight year, and his fifth win in eight years of competition. After 23 days on the grueling, 2,816-mi. course that snakes in and out of six countries, only 81 of 132 starters were still riding as the tour swung into the final 17-mi. dash for Paris. Anquetil had a bare 14-sec. lead over his closest pursuer, but then bike racing's reigning rajah turned it on and pumped across the finish line for a 55-sec. victory, slimmest margin...