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...Classic Touch. With the rainy season ending, the tactical advantage shifts to the Portuguese troops, who can now take the offensive without bogging down in the mud. But some 5.000 white soldiers have arrived from Lisbon to beef up Angola's 2,000-man regular garrison. Roberto's forces are also grouping for a showdown. He claims that he is getting financial aid from Tunisia to fuel his revolt but denies that he is getting any help from Ghana (the Portuguese have admitted that they made a mistake in claiming the capture of 71 "Ghanaians"). "The Portuguese have...
...already has earned $739,068-more than any other horse his age in racing history. He has won at nearly every distance from three furlongs to a mile and three-sixteenths, on every kind of track, under every conceivable condition except snow. He took the Florida Derby in the mud, the Garden State Stakes in slop, the Kentucky Derby on an offtrack, and the Preakness on a fast, cuppy (i.e., crumbly) surface. Although he holds the five-furlong track record at Florida's Gulfstream Park, Carry Back still has not shown how fast he can really run. Says Owner...
...this place to make money, not to serve tramps," thundered Mrs. John T. Reges at the trio of drenched, mud-spattered hikers who led a march to her Old Anglers Inn near the Potomac last week and began unwrapping their homemade sandwiches. Singling out the mild-looking, silver-haired elder of the group, she barked: "Get off that rug! Get over there with the rest of the wet ones." When someone protested, she pointed at the puddles on the floor and demanded: "Well, is he going to clean up the mess?" Then she turned on the grinning youngster...
Across the Border. Angola's troubled area is the sprawling Congo district on the northern frontier. There the rainy season turned roads into quagmires of oozing mud, and the elephant grass grows eight-feet high, making concealment a simple matter for the terrorists who slipped across the border by night from President Joseph Kasavubu's Republic of the Congo. Most are followers of a determined, softspoken, exiled African Angolan named Holden Roberto, 36, who has spent months organizing the revolt from the headquarters of his Union of the Populations of Angola* in Léopoldville, the Congo...
...land is so swampy that after World War I surplus dealers reportedly disposed of several French 75 mm. cannon by removing their wheels and carriages and letting them sink into the mud...