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Died. Fintan Patrick Walsh, 67, president of New Zealand's Federation of Labor, a craggy bachelor who started as an organizer for the Seaman's Union, strode on to become unquestioned kingpin of New Zealand labor and one of his country's most important men, bitterly resisting all efforts by the nation's farmers (of which he was one of the biggest in the dairy field) to capture an increased share of government benefits at the expense of labor; of a heart attack; in Wellington...
Instead, Premier Cyrille Adoula's government dispatched the Congolese army commander, General Joseph Mobutu, and units of red-bereted paracommandos to the police compound. Ordering his men not to shoot, Mobutu opened the camp's gate and strode in alone and unarmed to face the mutineers. Roughly he yanked the ringleaders out of the mob one by one, and demanded that they give up. With that the revolt collapsed, and Mobutu-his well-creased trousers stained with a spot of blood-ordered the mutiny's leaders stripped to their underwear and driven off to jail through...
While his handsome wife Jovanka beamed down from a visitors' box, Tito strode into the hall to the cheers of the crowd and sat gravely through a formal reading of the new charter. Afterward, looking remarkably fit for a man who will be 71 next month, he happily auto graphed copies of the constitution...
...Downright Spongy." At his press conference, John F. Kennedy showed unmistakably that he, too, is thinking ahead to 1964. He strode to the microphones with the springy belligerence of a middleweight boxer. A note of impatience ran through his answers to reporters' early questions, as if he could hardly wait for a subject really worth punching. Then a reporter asked him whether he cared to comment on a letter that Dwight Eisenhower recently sent to Indiana's House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck. Eisenhower's letter urged "major surgery" on Kennedy's spending plans. The Administration...
...blocks to Madison Square Garden. Nobody recognized him staring up at the marquee that read TONIGHT -BOXING-CLAY vs. JONES. Clay eturned to his room, sprawled on the bed. At 10 he was up again, restless, bubbly' puckish. At the weigh-in, Cassius burst into the room and strode toward the scales -startled laughter in his wake. Even Doug Jones could not resist a smile. There, plastered across the Mighty Mouth, was a 2-in.-wide strip of adhesive tape...