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...scope and spontaneity of the relief effort has been astonishing. Nicaragua has received food from Europe, medical supplies from Latin America and aid of all kinds from the U.S. Government and private American contributors like Pittsburgh Pirates Outfielder Roberto Clemente, who died in the crash of a relief plane bound for Managua from Puerto Rico (see SPORT). In some cases, the U.S. effort has not been as effective or as widely noticed as it might be. While a 185-man Army medical team from the 21st Evacuation Hospital based in Fort Hood, Texas, operated in a barbed-wire-enclosed compound...
Toboggan. When the F-27 took off again, the storm had abated, but the flight over the Andes proved to be rough going. Still in a holiday mood, the rugby players happily yelled "?Ole!" or "?Conga!" each time the turboprop hit an air pocket. But then, recalled Roberto Canessa, a 19-year-old medical student, "I looked out as we turned and saw a mountain only a few feet away." Without warning, the plane hit a peak and slid like a toboggan for half a mile down an 80° slope. When the plane finally stopped in a huge snowdrift...
...board of directors of baseball's Hall of Fame moved today to clear the way for Roberto Clemente's immediate election, bypassing the usual five-year waiting period...
HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH Tonight: Kameraduchaft, by Pabst, and three by Melies: Jupiter's Thunderbolts, The Magic Lantern and The Mermaid, 7:30 p.m., 31 Sunday, "Critical Mass" by Hollis Frampton and The Miracle by Roberto Rossellini...
...Citizen Kane, which she said ridiculed William Randolph Hearst, she was also a tireless reporter with sharp instincts for a story and an early-warning radar for scandal. Two of her biggest exposés were the Douglas Fairbanks-Mary Pickford divorce and Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini...