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Nation's Spirit. In her radio address last week, the Prime Minister declared: "There is a chance now to regain the nation's spirit of adventure. Let us get on with the job." Whether India in the future will be approaching that job peacefully and democratically is very much up to Mrs. Gandhi-and what she does in the next few months...
...preliminaries are finally over. Ever since he upset George Foreman in Zaïre last October to regain the world heavyweight championship, Muhammad Ali has been beefing up his bank account at the expense of harmless opponents. First he played with Chuck Wepner in Cleveland for $1.5 million, then humiliated Ron Lyle in Las Vegas for $1 million. Last week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he pocketed $2.5 million with an easy 15-round decision over European Heavyweight Champ Joe Bugner. In fact, his toughest opponents in Kuala Lumpur were the sopping 118° under the ring lights and the near...
...short of the runway. Still a full 2,300 ft. from 22-L but otherwise on course, it struck a row of 22-ft. towers supporting the runway approach lights. It clipped three of them. Then, in what may have been a final valiant effort by the pilot to regain control, it momentarily cleared the next three. Finally, it plunged into four more...
...attacks. Since that time, though, the situation has changed considerably, and much to his advantage. Judge Garrity has helped to case some of this pressure on White. The antibusing forces have now aimed their protests at the judge as the source of the busing plan. White has managed to regain at least some of his lost position because of this...
...returned to Indochina to organize a resistance movement against the invading Japanese. Toward the end of the war, he courted American intelligence officers in the hope that the U.S. would plead his cause. As Japan collapsed, he proclaimed an independent republic of Viet Nam, but the French, determined to regain the empire, refused to deal with him. After nine years of war, Ho's Viet Minh guerrillas bled France into exhaustion. But at the 1954 Geneva Conference, he was rewarded with only the northern half of the country...