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...helicopters they were traveling in developed engine trouble and had to flutter down blindly to a forced landing in a blizzard. This, if nothing else, gave a fascinating revelation of the seating order of Hope's entourage when he is on the move: the stricken helicopter contained Singer John Bubbles, Madman Jerry Colonna, Bandleader Les Brown, and only one female, Actress Janis Paige. Meanwhile, in the other chopper, were Hope, Jill St. John, Anita Bryant, Anna Maria Alberghetti, and Ann Sidney, the British girl who is Miss World...
...Inner City missions, many of them modeled on the interdenominational East Harlem Protestant Parish, where Holy Communion is often celebrated around a kitchen table in an apartment, and a team of laymen and clerics spend most of their waking hours combatting the apathy of public officialdom and a poverty-stricken community. The National Council of Churches is supporting an ambitious new program of Christian involvement called "the Delta Ministry." In 15 Mississippi counties, council staff workers and volunteers will be working with Negro organizations on voter registration drives, seeking to reconcile the white community to civil rights, establishing community centers...
...avoid outside encroachment, the press in two states Massachusetts and Oregon, has already adopted voluntary codes that circumscribe the reporting of court procedures. The Massachusetts guide, for example, which is followed by half the dailies in the state, suggests that papers refrain from printing court testimony that has been stricken from the record, pretrial confessions, and criminal records unless introduced as evidence...
...content with that (plus some $221 million of outright French aid), Ben Bella is demanding half ownership of the oil industry, which now gives him 50% of the profits, so that he can industrialize poverty-stricken Algeria. French negotiators seem willing to give in to demands for joint management of new oil ventures, but want to hold out for the profitable status quo on existing operations. So far, Ben Bella has shied away from talk of outright nationalization, but Algerian oil workers are ominously pressuring producers for control over hiring, firing and promotions...
Three days before he was due to swim in the 400-meter individual medley (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle), California's Dick Roth, 17, was stricken with an appendicitis attack. Rushed to a hospital, he was fed intravenously, packed in ice. Roth refused medication: "If it has to come out, O.K.," he said, "but if it doesn't, I don't want to be punchy for the race." Then he went out and chopped 3.1 sec. off his own world record...