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...spokesman for Gov. Edward J. King and Secretary of Transportation Barry Locke denied on Monday reports that the King administration will scrap plans to renovate Boston's Central Artery in favor of constructing a third Boston Harbor tunnel crossing...
Throughout the night the ship blazed, lighting up the harbor and causing the Cunard Countess to cast off from its neighboring berth and head for the safety of the open sea. The intense heat melted through the blue-and-white vessel's metal plating and buckled its superstructure. Authorities considered towing the ship out to sea in case it exploded, but were afraid it might capsize in the 20-m.p.h. wind. By early the next morning, the ship had settled to the bottom, its unsubmerged topsides still flaming. None of the passengers or 360 crewmembers were seriously hurt...
...known as "the unsinkable aircraft carrier" of the Mediterranean. After one siege of Axis bombing raids, Britain bestowed the George Cross-its highest civilian award for valor-on the entire island. Last week Malta formally ended its participation in the defense of the West. At Malta's Grand Harbor, British and Maltese officials unveiled a monument symbolically depicting the departure of British forces. Next day Britain's last military commander on the island, Rear Admiral Oswald Cecil, boarded the guided-missile destroyer H.M.S. London, and set sail for home...
...Harvard bats, which had been much too passive in the first two Northern contests (Crimson batters had struck out a total of 19 times against UMass and Princeton, but 11 of those fannings came on called third strikes), went berserk in the sixth inning, as the hitters turned Pearl Harbor on the Horsehide and scored six runs to dispatch Navy's 1-0 lead...
...objectionable political current that swept him along against his will. His association at Harvard with Fairbank, then suspected by the McCarran Committee of having something to do with Communists at home and abroad, aroused the suspicion of California's loyalty-oath-bearing legislators that Levenson, too, might harbor secret Communist sympathies. Further outcry arose after Levenson's first interview with the University of California in 1949, when he is supposed to have answered the question "How did the United States lose China?" by responding, "I never knew that we owned China." His appointment to Berkeley's faculty ultimately...