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Marines checked their packs, made camouflage nets for their helmets, sharpened knives and bayonets. It was hushed, tense activity which did not slacken until daylight was fading. And as night fell and the wind whistled through the rigging, 'Darken Ship' rang...
...American Export passenger-cargo liner S.S. Excalibur nosed out of New York harbor into a collision with the inbound Danish freighter Colombia (TIME, July 10). As water poured through a 38-foot hole between the Excalibur's No. 2 and No. 3 holds, Captain Samuel Groves rang up full speed, beached her on the mud bottom off Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Within an hour all 114 passengers had been taken off and American Export Lines began a furious race to get the Excalibur ready for sea again. In 39 days of continuous work, the line spent...
...sending buyers all over the world, Harold Stanley Marcus, boss of Dallas' $22-million-a-year Neiman-Marcus specialty store, has scored many a scoop in the fashion business. Last year Neiman-Marcus rang up a tidy $800,000 profit by supplying wives & daughters of well-heeled Texans with hand-knit French girdles at $79.50, Italian silk handmade nightgowns with Trapunto embroidery at $150 and Aleutian mink coats...
...discovered they were above the tunnel. Carefully they worked down to one entrance. It was a single track tunnel, blasted out of solid rock, about a quarter of a mile long, curving slightly. Using shovels they had brought with them, they dug into the railroad bed. When their shovels rang too loudly they went down on their knees and finished digging with their hands. Primer cord connected two charges so they would explode as one, and caps were taped to both rails. Then word was passed to head back for the whaleboat...
...over Asia, leaders' words rang with a new sense of clear purpose. The most interesting reaction came from India. Its newspapers freely predicted that India's U.N. delegate would not vote for the U.S. resolution on Korea. Then Pandit Nehru came home from a trip to Indonesia, Malaya, Burma. For months he had been preaching "neutrality" in the struggle between Communism and the West. What he had seen in other lands, plus the U.S. action on Korea, changed his mind. He amazed his countrymen and the world by lining India up on the side...