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Leslie Streeter, American skiier from Northfield Vermont, who suffered torn ligaments and a fractured shoulder Monday was permitted to leave the hospital for his hotel yesterday. During practice on a treacherous Olympic hill the 22-year-old Army private fell and broke a small bone in his shoulder. The United States team physician said that the injury would put the skiier out of action for a month...
...Mediterranean sky dropped the transports, bringing 1,200 crack British paratroopers in battle readiness. They landed in Cyprus, not to reinforce that strife-torn island, but to be only a hop, skip and a jump away from Jordan, the Middle East's newest trouble spot...
...scene, the searchers located the bodies of the other four. The land party reached the riverbank at week's end, found that four had died of spear wounds-and one of machete slashes. Around the shaft of one spear were wrapped a few pages torn from a Bible. The dead were identified, then buried where they lay. Ecuador's government sent sympathy and regrets to the U.S. ambassador, but regarded any attempt to find the Auca murderers as impractical. Back in Milwaukee, McCully's father humbly accepted his son's death. "God makes no mistakes...
...entirely different role, as the mentally torn major, Richard Kiley does an equally excellent job. With an electric tension displayed even in the curve of his back, he reveals his intense inner preoccupation, while his voice has the dull quality of a man despairing and confused. Here again, the playwrights achieve a real triumph in the development of a character, for there is an implication that the major is motivated not only by heroism plain and simple, but by war-guilt which has gradually caused him to adopt a savior complex. Although somewhat less subtle psychologically, Thomas Carlin's rendition...
...While the customers howled over what amounted to a concealed hike in their commutation-ticket fares. Pat McGinnis turned the affair into a real Donnybrook with a speech in Norwalk. "Because I want to charge a lousy five bucks," he roared, "people act as though I've torn up the tracks. There's going to be parking at every station, and if it costs me money, it's going to cost you money, because I'm a businessman-not the Ford Foundation...