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...teeming southern Korean coastal city of Pusan. Like thousands of other jobless refugees, Han opened a tiny store specializing in black-market supplies filched from U.S. military ware houses and PX stores, luxury goods smuggled from Japan. Soon Han muscled his way to the top of the pack, sported a smashed nose and livid knife scars as testimony to his ruthlessness. Not satisfied with being a middleman, he branched out into large-scale smuggling. Han's fleet of speedboats, powered by salvaged aircraft engines and diesel tank motors, easily outdistanced coast guard patrol boats on the short, 40-mile...
What are the Sox' chances of maintaining their present lofty gait (7-5)? That's like asking what are the chances that a rhesus monkey, given a pack of Corrasable Bond and rubber stamps of the letters A and X, will turn out the 1962 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. But the Red Sox are high in the commodity known as spirit, and as Connie Mack used to say, if you haven't got it there, the prospects of your having it at all are remote at best...
Soutter, a New England safety officer licensed by the P.C.A., told me that he has taken 489 students through static-line jumps--in none of which did the main canopy fail. And he showed me how a parachute works, how the several tough, elastic bands throw the pack open when the rip cord is pulled, and how, at the same instant, the pilot chute (a miniature parachute that pulls the main canopy out) hurtles almost 20 feet into the air by the force of its own compressed spring system...
...Erratic and emotional, Arnold Palmer is at once exciting and exasperating; his patented, last-gasp finishes have given golf some of its brightest moments. In the 1960 Masters, he birdied the last two holes to beat Ken Venturi by a stroke. In the 1960 U.S. Open, deep in the pack after three rounds, he fired a last-day 65 to win. This spring in the Palm Springs Golf Classic, Palmer birdied five straight holes on the final round to beat Gene Littler. "I can always tell when Mr. Arnold is ready to make his move," says Caddie Avery. "He jerks...
...Fondness for animals," indeed. Doesn't Jackie realize that a mongoose has as good a chance against a cobra [March 30] as a fox does against a pack of hounds...