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...missilemaker was handsome, tough talking Thomas Lanphier Jr., 44, wartime fighter pilot and Navy Cross winner (for gunning down the plane carrying Japan's naval commander, Admiral Isoroku Ya-mamoto), who is a vice president of General Dynamics' Atlas-making Convair division. To an audience of 40 junketeering newsmen and Air Force brass, Lanphier in one evening 1) gave a hard sell for the Atlas, whose capabilities even the President has highly praised: 2) pushed an obvious soft pedal for the Martin Co.'s competing Titan; 3) upbraided the press for not paying more heed...
...sources of tension, the most dramatic has been the return of what the Congolese call the Mundele ya Mwinda, the White Man with the Lantern. The Mundele superstition goes back to the time when Belgian officials would come into a village at night to round up Congolese males for forced labor. Gradually, the blacks began to see these officials as one all-powerful demon, whose lantern cast an evil spell. Though no one knows exactly who brought the legend of the evil White Man back to life, thousands of Congolese are today convinced that he is once again stalking...
There is nothing-and nobody-left for Kirk Douglas to shoot down but his old friend, in a fair draw. Justice done, he hops the last train from Gun Hill. As his late friend's tart (Carolyn Jones) remarks: "Ya gotta admire someone who's got that much guts...
...ya doing there, old Vag?" asked an acquaintance...
...saddle; rangy muleteers in peaked caps with big earlaps goaded the baggage train up the steep path. As they passed a cairn of rocks topped by brightly colored flags printed with Buddhist prayers, each pious Tibetan added a stone to the mound, murmured the traditional litany: "So-ya...