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...defended by tanks and Russian SU-100 tank destroyers, machine guns, mortars and bazookas. The only access was through a zigzag of mined concrete traps, and the Israeli tanks, now commanded by Lieut. Naty, could only crawl a few yards forward before having to back up, wheel sideways and inch forward at a fresh angle. They provided tempting targets for the furiously firing Syrians. A shell caromed off Naty's tank turret, silencing his radio. He raced to another tank and jockeyed it into the spearhead position...
...Northern soldiers set one foot in side Biafran soil, not a single inch of Nigerian territory will be safe from our attack." That was the vow of Biafra Secessionist Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu just before Nigeria's federal troops, led by Major General Yakubu Gowon, invaded Ojukwu's Eastern Region six weeks ago. Ojukwu was slow to make good his threat. But last week, having fought his attackers to a standstill, he was ready to take the offensive. In a swift twelve-hour drive, he captured the federal government's oil-rich Midwestern State...
...strong are some of today's steel alloys that four one-inch-square bars will easily support the weight of a 125-ton jet airliner. Yet even the best of these metals will crack and shatter if they are subjected to much greater stress. Earlier this month, a research team at the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory announced development of a super steel alloy that will bear as much as 4 times more pressure than common structural steels without breaking...
...recluse is well named, for it is a shy little creature and avoids light. It is, says Arkansas' Dr. Calvin J. Dillaha, "potentially more dangerous than the black widow because its appearance is insignificant to the point of innocence." It has a body not more than half an inch long. Its color varies from fawn to chocolate brown. It thrives in dark corners and crevices in barns and attics, closets and storerooms...
...inch forward toward their goal, the action stops to let each one run over in his mind a private snapshot album of The Ways Things Were. And over across the hill, the Japanese are doing the same. Every cliche is in its niche: the sensitive downy-cheeked youngster who wants to be a lawyer; the noble captain (Wilde) who tells the lad that he "will be a better lawyer for all this"; the hillbilly hankering after "jes' one more woman afore Ah git it." Grisly glimpses of shot-off limbs and other carnage lend the film a certain sense...