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Oregon's Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, 40, left Salem at 6 a.m., drove to Portland for a quick speech to railway workers. Then he was off for a 351-mile drive to Baker (pop. 9,986), in sparsely settled, heavily Democratic eastern Oregon, for a typical round of small-town campaigning-an inspirational speech on civic virtue to the local high school assembly, a handshaking tour of an industrial plant (''Hatfield's the name, nice to see you again"), a visit with the editor of the local weekly, a talk to the Powder River Sportsmen...
...Last week they were growing ever more edgy-with good reason. In the past month seven bombs, presumably planted by Nationalist underground agents, have killed five people and wounded 40 others inside Red China. The terrorists have blown up a blockhouse, a dynamite magazine, a bank, a stretch of railway near the borders of Hong Kong and Macao. An attempt was also made to destroy a Macao-Canton ferryboat, but it was foiled when crewmen discovered a tin labeled "Apricot Kernel Cakes with Meat Filling" behind a men's room mirror. It was a TNT bomb, and the passenger...
Racing neck and neck, the yellow car and the red car both managed to scoot across the railway crossing just ahead of a lumbering locomotive. They barreled around a curve and into a straightaway with a traffic light shining green ahead. Just before they reached it, the light winked red, and two trucks that had been waiting at the intersection started across. The red car stopped in time, but the yellow car ran the light and bulleted broadside into one of the trucks...
Special Branch (political) police searched for him everywhere, regularly swooped on his dowdy little home in Orlando township, searched bus stations and railway terminals. But towering (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), affable Nelson Mandela sped from one hideout to another. Often he telephoned newspapers with defiant statements against the government; once he even gave a television interview to the BBC. Last February he traveled to a Pan-African congress in Addis Ababa and returned unnoticed...
...town tryouts go, it was way, way out. By coastal steamer, narrow-gauge railway and bus, Comedian Bert Lahr, 66, and a Broadway cast trekked up to Dawson City in the Yukon-4,700 miles from the Great White Way-for an eight-week run of Foxy, a Gold Rush version of Ben Jonson's Volpone. The musical comedy, timed to premiere with the beginning of Dawson City's Gold Rush Festival, launched the event with a splash. At the Palace Grand Theater, where Douglas Fairbanks Sr. once played to Klondike sourdoughs, British Comedienne Bea Lillie officially opened...