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...French colonial wars, who had fought from Indo-China to Algeria but could find no place in their homeland's armed forces. Recently, a tough ex-sergeant, Emmanuel Bodjolle, 35, jobless and with a family to support, organized a conspiracy with 30 other noncoms. Last week, after Olympio tore up a final plea to take into the service at least 60 of the most qualified veterans, Bodjolle snapped: "Bon. Ça va." That midnight his battle-tough insurgents struck, easily occupying the capital...
...hours later, three young men crept into West Berlin's Jerusalem Street, cut in half by the Wall, and planted a bomb. The explosion tore a jagged nine-foot hole in the bricks, shattered nearby windows. Before any lucky refugees could make their escape. Communist Vopos rushed to the gap, threatened the West Berlin crowd with submachine guns. "Get away!" snarled a Vopo, snapping the bolt on his gun. A West Berliner replied ironically: "And a Merry Christmas...
...city teams-the New York Giants. Los Angeles Rams. Cleveland Browns. Detroit Lions-ruled the league. Starting in 1948. the small-town Packers went eleven years without a winning season. In 1958. they won only one game Tout of twelve). Things got so bad that Green Bay youngsters tore up their autograph books and Packer coaches wisely left their telephones off the hook. "A small town." says Coach Harland Svare of the Rams, "is the best place in the world to be if you're on a winning team-and the worst if you're losing." Recalls...
Mr.Street tore into the concerto's first movements, but controlled every note. At the ends of solos before orchestral returns, for example, he tapered and rounded each phrase. In the filler passages, he subordinated his line while conductor Layton searched for something interesting in the orchestra...
...swans, headed south from the Arctic to Chesapeake Bay wintering grounds, apparently struck the stabilizer of the United Viscount "like soft cannonballs," said a CAB crash investigator. Weakened by the impact, the tail shuddered and tore away, and the plane fell out of control...