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...straight out of the last thousand horse movies, but Stewart's answer is new: hell no. The commandant shudders; he has done westerns before, and this is not the way the scene is supposed to go. But he asks, disbelievingly, would money change Stewart's mind? "Yah." says Stewart, interested for the first time-$500 for each captive...
Finding out will not be easy. At 21, after two tune-up seasons in the bushes, Leftfielder Yastrzemski (pronounced Yah-strem-skee) is the finest outfield prospect in the American League. Boston sportswriters already are comparing him to Ted Williams, and the authoritative Sporting News has all but conceded him its Rookie of the Year award. In spring training, ex-Slugger Williams watched Yastrzemski take batting practice, exulted: "The boy has everything-poise a good eye, smoothness. He'll hit .320 in his first year." The prediction seems reasonable. At Raleigh, in the Class B Carolina League. Yastrzemski...
...huge crowd at Accra's main arena to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Nkrumah's independence campaign against Britain, begun back in the days when Ghana was the Gold Coast colony. "I wish to sound a note of warning," shouted Nkrumah, as the throng shrieked "eee-yah" in approval, "that the enemies of African freedom, namely the colonial powers and their imperialist collaborators, are planning hard to sabotage African unity . . . They are prepared to grant political independence, but are also planning to dominate the African territories in the economic and technical fields...
...currency cop of the world is a massively built man (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lbs.) with the shoulders of a riot-squad member and the broad, ranging mind of Sherlock Holmes. His name: Per Jacobsson (pronounced yah-kub-son). His job: managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Jacobsson is an expert at pleading, cajoling, and onoccasion forcing nations to follow wise economic policies. Thanks to the Fund -and booming production in Europe -Jacobsson reported last week that "Europe's monetary troubles have been successfully overcome, from a whole series of emergencies, on to stability, to external convertibility...
...Yah,--but I'm not so sure. I don't like all the damn politicking that goes on around here, and I think it makes the fraternities look down on us even more. You're right, though--yeh, thanks, I will have some more--we are taking over the campus--Cam Club, IDC, the Herald...