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...give me any more of your damned nonsense, I will kick you from Hell to Hackney." In the 260 years since Admiral Sir George Rooke captured the Rock from Spain, the kicking match has gone on almost nonstop. Last week, when General Francisco Franco opened his umpteenth campaign to regain the terrain for Spain, the British were ready with both feet...
...hard part, a scarcely veiled reference to U.S. "hegemony" in Latin America. "We Frenchmen," he told a group of businessmen and farm leaders, "believe that from the points of view of economy, politics, influence and power, Latin America is an essential factor in a world which must regain an equilibrium. You are masters in your own house, and we wish that you remain...
...Washington last week made surgical history when they slipped an ingenious and incredibly small ultra sound probe inside a patient's eyeball for the first time and located a sliver of brass. Once found, the sliver was instantly removed, and James Cassiday, 11, was assured that he will regain substantial vision in his damaged left...
...week. An automated tanker, the Texaco Rhode Island, has just completed sea trials off Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point yards in Maryland. Several other companies are also building pushbutton vessels. This full turn to automation represents a brave effort by the $2 billion private U.S. shipbuilding industry to regain the seagoing supremacy that it has lost to foreign competitors...
...lone outlander among the record breakers was Australia's Murray Rose, a durable veteran of 25, who took time off from his Hollywood acting career to regain the 1,500-meter freestyle record he first held eight years ago. But just about everything else was California's. Or, rather, Santa Clara's. The Santa Clara Swim Club, alma mater of Olympic Queens Chris von Saltza and Lynn Burke, swam away with four of the world records, won 14 of 30 events, and became the first club ever to win both the men's and women...