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...performance worthy of Fidel Castro after the Bay of Pigs. The room in Brazzaville's presidential palace was crowded with reporters and armed militia youths. Handcuffed to a chair was a terrified prisoner of war. Behind a table piled high with machine guns, hand grenades, plastic bombs, pistols and ammunition, stood President Alphonse Massamba-Debat, the picture of triumphant rage. "A commando group of 32 men landed at Brazzaville on the night of July 14," he announced. "Their mission was to assassinate your government leaders...
...surprisingly, strict liability was on every tongue last week at the Miami convention of the American Trial Lawyers Association-a group so dedicated to winning personal injury suits (fee: up to 50% of the judgment) that the delegates spent eight hours a day buying such trial props as plastic skeletons and listening to such maestros as Melvin Belli, who lovingly lectured on his tactics in winning a $215,000 judgment for a Navy pilot's widow against the manufacturer of a helicopter that crashed during military operations...
...into the camera's flash gun before every photograph. Now Sylvania and Kodak have developed a neat solution-the Sylvania flashcube, which is no larger than an ice cube and contains four miniature flash bulbs, each with its own built-in reflector. Packaged in threes for $1.95, the plastic-coated cube fits any of eight newly designed Kodak cameras, completely eliminates the need for the old flash attachment. On cameras with automatic film advancers, the cube spins around so fast the photographer can shoot four times in five seconds-plenty of time to catch that certain smile before...
...April when South Vietnamese police caught a "pretty, well-shaped and lovable" 17-year-old girl named Nguyen Thi Nga, which means "Moon Fairy." She and two friends had been making themselves lovable around the U.S. officers' mess at Soctrang Airbase, which they planned to blow up with plastic bombs fitted into talcum powder cans. The Viet Cong run a sweeping intelligence network by means of Saigon's myriad bar girls, also have agents working in most of the U.S. military installations around the country. One knowledgeable observer estimates that at least half of the female help employed...
...grey-haired spinster waved a delicate, S-shaped twist of plastic at her audience of newsmen in New Delhi last week and announced triumphantly: "It's foolproof." What Dr. Sushila Nayar, India's Health Minister, held aloft was a contraceptive device. She was opening Family Planning Week, the start of a new government campaign against the nation's severest problem: overpopulation...