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...Force had decided to drop the preliminary "blue" air raid warning signal, use only the "red" signal (which means duck, the attack is imminent). Reason: the speed of modern bombers. Once bombers were sighted there would be no time for preliminaries, barely time to duck...
...months before the North Korean invasion. They cite the result of last May's U.N.-observed election, which had filled the National Assembly with an assortment of independents, many of whom were hostile to Rhee. Both in Korea and abroad, Rhee's opponents called him a lame-duck President, declared that his government was discredited. Other observers believe that Rhee's government was just beginning to hit its stride last June and that the Reds attacked when they did because they could not afford to tolerate the example of an effective, popular anti-Communist government in Asia...
Early Frost. But Birds Eye has plenty of competition. There are 1,050 smaller companies whose 500-odd products include frozen clam chowder, gefüllte fish, ready-to-bake biscuits, strawberry shortcake, Chinese egg rolls, cheese blintzes, chicken pie, bullhead fillets, partridge, Australian rabbit, buffalo meat and mallard duck. But the biggest sellers are still staples of the U.S. kitchen, vegetables, fruits and juices...
Stepping off the train into a milk-white "duck" (amphibious truck), Tandon was pelted with flowers. Headed by an elephant borrowed from an itinerant circus, the procession jogged through packed and bedecked streets. Behind Tandon's duck came 5,000 Congress delegates, a score of mounted military cadets and a group of 100 folk dancers tripping to the shrill notes of the flute-like shanai...
...WNEW). Far from the creep-voiced menace of his early movie days, Karloff dished up nonsense (Lewis Carroll's double-talking Jabberwock), limericks, and songs (recorded by Groucho Marx and Burl Ives), gave a fatherly lesson in tolerance (the story of a Churkandoose, which was neither chicken, turkey, duck or goose: "I'm sure . . . you'll respect his right to be different"). It looked as though onetime Frankenstein Monster Karloff, who reported a "tremendous reaction from children and their mothers," might yet live down his bogeyman reputation...