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Eleven men sat in the prisoners' dock in a narrow Algiers courtroom. They were servants of Vichy-the officers and guards of a concentration camp in North Africa, now indicted and on trial for murder and torture. A. P. Correspondent Relman Morin described them as they looked in the Gaullist courtroom...
...young officer, at times almost handsome. His expression comes alive with a kind of haunted fury. His black eyes widen. His neck stretches. His head begins to twitch in spasmodic jerks. He looks like a hunted animal. It is a spasm. As it passes, he leans back against the dock and only the wariness in his eyes remains...
...nearby Russian soldiers ignored the baseball. But when they discovered the sailors practicing basketball with a decrepit volleyball and backboards erected on the dock, they issued a challenge. After the first quarter, the U.S. scorer quit-his team was so far behind he had lost count. The Russians also challenged the sailors at swimming. After one practice in the icy waters, the sport was dropped...
...Newport News the 27,000-ton carrier Ticonderoga was launched, towed off to the fitting-out dock, the ninth of the new Essex class to be launched since 1942. Ticonderoga was also one of the early 1944 guaranties by the world's most powerful navy that this year's building would outdo the spectacular record...
...most unfavorably on the West Coast is his handling of the celebrated Point Lobos case. In 1936, at the height of West Coast labor strife, the chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos was stabbed and beaten to death in his cabin, while the ship lay at an Alameda dock...