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...where Jordanians had ambushed a busload of Israelis last month. Next night a powerful Israeli army force-some 1,000 troops according to Jordan sources-slammed twelve miles across the desert frontier into Jordan and, supported by artillery and bombing planes, wiped out a police post at Gharandal, almost midway between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. Jordan reported ten police, National Guardsmen and civilians killed, eight wounded...
...been getting up this early every day for the past year-it's standard practice," said a cheery Adlai Stevenson into the microphones at Chicago's Midway Airport. The time was 8:15 a.m. At his side, Estes Kefauver chimed in: "I don't usually get up this early." But, added Estes, "I'm going to do so to accommodate my wonderful running mate...
...swarming customers headed last week for the glare of the carnival midway in Great Falls, Mont., there seemed nothing special about the husky-voiced man at the refreshment booth just inside the grandstand. "Kids, kids, kids!'' he would cry. "Big kids, little kids, bring your dimes and nickels! Get your ice cream here!" He pushed the hot dogs ("See how long they are!-30? to the foot, 90? to the yard!"), kept up a steady stream of jingles ("Local bread, pound of meat,/And all the mustard you can eat"), in every way seemed to be just...
...Midway through his three-day meeting with the Kremlin leaders, Mollet invited the Moscow ambassadors of twelve NATO countries to lunch, to assure them that the Russians now knew they could not split NATO. "It took a Socialist, a man of the left, to convince them," he said. "I fought harder for NATO here in Moscow than I ever did in Paris...
...until the Yanks came. Midway through World War II, General Eisenhower's forces crossed from North Africa to occupy the bald, sirocco-scorched island of Sardinia (pop. 950,000) as a bomber base for the invasion of southern France. They ran up against the malaria that infested the coastal marshes and that throughout history has kept invaders back and the islanders down. Thereafter, by one of the most intensive campaigns ever waged against malaria, U.S. and Italian DDT teams banished the anopheles mosquito that had helped stunt the development of a people long accounted the smallest of Italians. Since...