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...raced along undefended roads toward the Syrian headquarters at El Quneitra. In the central sector, the diversionary probes of the previous day expanded into a full-scale pincer movement that took Aalleiga, a pivotal point in the Syrian second line of defense, and then split into flying columns that sped north to El Quneitra and south to Boutmiye. In the south, airborne troopers leapfrogged in helicopters, quickly seizing one unsuspecting village after another, while an armored column thrust up the road to consolidate their gains...
...dewy Covent Garden ballerina from Rhodesia, Merle Park, 29. Could it be that the most brilliant team in modern ballet will be unhitched at last? "A big lie!" stormed Rudi. He and Dame Margot have occasionally danced with others in the past as schedules demanded. As Covent Gar den sped forward with reassurances that Rudi, 29, and Merle "are not a permanent partnership," Ballerina Park remarked unflappably that "Rudolf is marvelous," but that she has performed with British dancers who are "as good as Nureyev in their...
...about the business of the day when suddenly some men appeared dragging a 13-year-old girl. She fought and screamed, begging for help as the men forced her into a car. No one did anything; some of the pedestrians did not even stop walking. When the car finally sped away with its captive, not one of the bystanders even took down the license. number. "Yes, I heard the girl screaming," said one man later. "But I didn't take any notice...
...Surveyor 4 sped toward the moon's Central Bay at 5,938 m.p.h. last week, ground controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory had high hopes that the unmanned spacecraft would do everything it was told. Two earlier Surveyors had soft-landed on the moon with astonishing ease, sent back 17,465 detailed pictures showing even lunar pebbles. With a hinged aluminum arm, Surveyor 3 had also scooped up lunar soil, helped determine that the moon's surface is strong enough to bear a weight of 6 lbs. per sq. in., more than enough to support...
...eventuality-as it has been for 20 years-was the U.S. Sixth Fleet: 50 ships and 25,000 men led by the cruiser Little Rock and including a six-ship amphibious force whose 2,000 Marines were hurriedly recalled from shore leave in Naples, packed aboard their vessels and sped toward the crisis zone. The antisubmarine carrier Intrepid, bound for Viet Nam, was ordered to tarry for a while in the Med. The British aircraft carrier Victorious, en route home from Singapore, also was ordered to cruise about...