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...sick. His death did more than prove that Black African civilization-with its elaborate trappings of half a hundred sovereignties, governments and U.N. delegations -is largely a pretense. The rebels were after all, for the most part, only a rabble of dazed, ignorant savages, used and abused by semi-sophisticated leaders...
Hewlett stretched his lead to 200 yards during the last two miles and crossed the finish line in the semi-worn-out condition to which he has become accustomed...
...villa, a call went out from Moscow for a secret meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. The roundup call no doubt originated in the party Presidium, which Nikita unwittingly believed was heavily in his favor (he had hand-picked seven of its eleven other members). In from semi-exile flew such opponents of Khrushchev as New Delhi-based Ambassador Ivan Benekditov. Central Committee members known to be strong for Nikita were not called, among them Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington. Khrushchev was confidently preparing a speech, which would point to Khrushchevian successes: a good harvest in the "virgin lands...
...boxing, American featherweight Charlie Brown and lightweight Ron Harris joined two teammates in the semi-finals. One American yacht led in its event with one race remaining, one was second, and three others were third...
...Charmante won handily, thus enhancing a future few American beauty queens could or would hope to have. For she, like the rest of the contestants, is a femme libre (literally "free woman") -one of a select crowd of Congolese hostesses who play a key role in official life as semi-wives...