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Seelback, a rather erratic player, is a rock on defense, having held Cornell's Bennett to no baskets in the first meeting of the two teams...
...flag. He had pounded on the flag when it was draped over the chairman's table at a strike meeting. ¶ In Chicago, a strike at the International Harvester Tractor Works threatened to spread to the huge McCormick Works next door. Struck were the Harvester Rock Falls, III. and Richmond, Ind. plants. Argument: higher wages. ¶ In Bridgeville, Pa., 400 workers who struck without authorization from their parent union were fired from their jobs at the Vanadium Corp. plant. Closed by another strike was the company's Niagara Falls plant...
Making his vow and donning his razor blades, Sir John challenged the Worm. They fought on a rock in the river, and after the Worm had wounded itself on the blades Sir John hacked it in two with his sword. One half floated down the river and, unable to rejoin, the Worm died. But Sir John did not kill the next living creature he saw. It was his father. The next nine generations of Lambtons died violent deaths...
After Oran the Royal Navy's only remaining stronghold in the West was Gibraltar, and even the Rock was surrounded by potential enmity-an Axis-controlled Spain to the north, Italian guns just across the Straits at Ceuta, the remains of the still equivocal French Fleet in Toulon. The Western Fleet spent most of the time on the alert, continually scouting for trouble. But all the time it was just waiting for a ripe time to go on the offensive. Last week the ripeness was there, and the Western Fleet harvested an audacious victory...
...lush black soil floors, across a stark desert of slippery sand and sharp stones, across an eroded tableland, through the magnificent mountain peaks (highest: 11,200 ft.) of Tibesti, along the edges of 1,000 ft.-precipices looking down on valleys full of bulrushes, across wastes of crumbling volcanic rock. They drank from sweet wells and pools bitter as quinine from the stalings of endless camels...