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...Length of Pipe. The crowd in front of the Lyceum had grown bigger and uglier. First it turned on newsmen in a face-punching, camera-smashing frenzy. Then up rolled the 60-man local National Guard unit. It was Troop E of the Second Reconnaissance Squadron of the 108th Armored Cavalry Division, under the command of Captain Murry C. Falkner, nephew of Oxford's late Novelist William Faulkner...
Russian-supplied MIG jet fighters zoomed low over Djkarta last week as Indonesia's military might assembled for Armed Forces Day. In the harbor below steamed Indonesia's newest warship, the Russian-built cruiser Irian. Through the streets drove marines in Soviet amphibious troop carriers and a battery of Russian-made ground-to-air missiles. An ironic counterpoint was provided by a youth brigade carrying bamboo spears...
Meanwhile, the Soviets stepped up their harassment of Allied traffic to West Berlin. A U.S. troop convoy was held up on the Autobahn; three times in two days Soviet MIG fighters buzzed unarmed Allied planes in the 20-mile Frankfurt-Berlin air corridor. Said one Western official: "It's part of what we call their 'weekly reminder' that they're around. They don't like too much time to go by without letting us know they still have a grip on Berlin...
...earlier sent the Russians a note protesting "acts of terror" (it was ignored), sent the deputy .Soviet commandant, Colonel C.V. Tarasov, an invitation to attend a four-power meeting to discuss the disturbances (it was rejected). Tarasov then tried twice to see Watson to protest the stoning of Soviet troop buses. He was predictably rebuffed in both attempts. This merely widened the smile on his chubby face; Moscow was soon crowing that the Americans were not only unable to prevent hooliganism, but refused even to discuss their failures...
...pack trip along the 9,200-ft. timber line in the High Sierras rode California's Governor Pat Brown, 53 relaxing from the rigors of his campaign against G.O.P. Challenger Richard Nixon. What was the name of his rented chestnut mare? asked newsmen as the Governor and his troop of 21 fellow campers clopped off into the wilds. "Richard," replied Brown, never the one to let gender interfere with a wisecrack. "I intend to ride him hard. And that's what I'm going to be doing for the next three months." Poor Daisy...