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...neutrals' decision to send their message to Khrushchev by both Nkrumah and Nehru threw Moscow into turmoil. Flags and banners welcoming Nehru were hastily torn down when the Russians learned that Nkrumah would arrive first in his Ghana Airways jet. The Russians then worked furiously to get them all back up again for Nehru's arrival a bare 50 minutes later. Nkrumah himself was discreetly spirited away from the airport in a Bentley so as not to intrude upon Nehru's red-carpet welcome by Khrushchev, and he stayed in Moscow only long enough to join Nehru...
...word, advanced $1,034,758 in urban renewal funds for Wink. Don McBee. 28. the town's ecstatic urban renewal director, promptly set about spending the money. McBee has mapped a 75-block area that includes practically all of Wink. In that space, 192 buildings will be torn down, ancient automobiles long rusting on vacant lots will be hauled away, tin shacks thrown up by the vanished oilfield riggers will be demolished. McBee has already bought eleven pieces of property, has options on 92 more. When the land is assembled, it will be sewered, paved, sprinkled with new stores...
...opponent, Artemio Lobrin, had a Laurel-like grasp of politics himself; after all, he had once served as confidential secretary to Jose Sr. He immediately filed a complaint charging that Laurel supporters had torn up Lobrin ballots, falsified returns and intimidated voters...
...Paul Anka, Tommy Sands and Fabian, making a scene in Darryl Zanuck's The Longest Day, the story of the Normandy invasion. Part way up the cliff, Anka was dropped by a speck of sand in his eye and, returning to the fray, was later immobilized by a torn fingernail. "Medic!" someone shouted, and World War II stopped dead in its tracks. Near General Zanuck's yellow camp chair stood a real U.S. Ranger, on hand to give technical advice. "These guys," he said helpfully, "don't have what it takes...
Later, as he ordered the retreat from Blackpool, Masters was faced with the decision of what to do with 19 hopelessly wounded stretcher cases-"the first man was quite naked and a shell had removed the entire contents of his stomach . . . another seemed to have been torn in pieces by a mad giant." To avoid holding up the retreat. Masters ordered the men shot. "One by one, carbine shots exploded curtly behind me. I put my hands over my ears, but nothing could shut out the sound ... I muttered, 'I'm sorry,' and 'Forgive...