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...there's Gyor." Some of the passengers turned in their seats to peer out of the windows. According to a prearranged plan, the six wrench carriers began to count silently and slowly to 300 in order to bring the airliner, according to Polyak's calculation, to the westernmost point in its course. At the end of the count, Polyak leaped from his seat and headed for the pilot's compartment. The others sprang into action against their fellow passengers, laying about them right and left with wrenches, floorboards, fists. In a moment the vintage twin-engined Douglas...
They were the words of failure, and the man who spoke them a symbol of failure. Communism has been forced into ideological retreat inside its own empire. Eight years of striving to Bolshevize East Germany in the Soviet image failed in the uprising of June 17. In the westernmost, and in many ways the most strategic, outpost of the Kremlin orbit, people rose up, without arms or organization or leaders, against the whole strength of a totalitarian regime and the Soviet army of occupation. They were suppressed, and not one inch of ground was wrenched from beneath the Red flag...
...approximate idea of events that morning last week. Stretching out from the apex of the triangular French-held Hanoi delta to the China border is a string of hedgehog defenses: the Black River line. Three weeks ago, when Communist General Giap (TIME, Nov. 17) attacked Laichau at the westernmost end of this line, General Linares had thrown in Operation Lorraine. It was a counterpunch, aimed to throw Giap's armies off balance and to cut one of his main supply lines from Communist China...
...first floor of the new structure was divided into two rooms, with a large central hall and fire-places separating them. The westernmost of these was the College chapel, while on the east side a large room was devoted to the College dining hall or Commons, which had in the basement beneath it a kitchen that was then the largest in New England. On the second story were two more large rooms, one the library, and the other a lecture hall, containing the College's "philosophical apparatus," which included such scientific instruments as orreries, telescopes, and stuffed birds...
...snatched, for a small down payment, a million-dollar Portland printing plant. He had served notice on Portland's venerable Oregonian and the Oregon Journal that they would have some competition "by apple blossom time." Fortified with income from three radio stations and his Coos Bay Times ("westernmost daily in the U.S."), he was making threatening gestures toward Spokane, Boise and points south-as far as San Francisco...