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...many of Okinawa's predecessors, the only thing that distinguishes it is ten miniatures of excellent combat film. Most of the shots center on Kamikaze attacks, and many times the camera catches a plane bursting into flame a scant fifty yards away from the ship. But this exciting ten minutes does not make up for the other fifty...
Meanwhile, at New London, George Robertson and Butch Horner finished fourth in the Heptagonal Dinghy Regatta. The Crimson had 81 points, 13 behind Tufts, the winner. M.I.T. had 88 points, and host Coast Guard 83, a scant two above the Crimson...
...Last week, 18 months after its first issue, Editor Chamberlain reported that the Freeman had taken some big steps toward its goal. At a time when most magazines of opinion are struggling to keep alive, its circulation has been increasing 1,000 a month, from a scant 6,000 to almost...
...sled-dog tradition and training, would stay on the beaten path. Shamus did him proud. At the last minute Shamus saw the cat, but swerved resolutely away from temptation, and carried the heads-down pack with him. Shamus' faithful maneuver saved Driver Shearer the title-by a scant minute and 19 seconds. Elapsed time, for three 19-mile races against twelve other teams: 4 hrs. 22 min. 57 sec.-about 13 m.p.h. over a hill & dale course...
Another Witness Reporters and spectators were paying scant attention one morning last week when Nathaniel Weyl, 41, a thin, broad-shouldered writer, came forward to take the witness stand in a fourth-floor committee room in the Senate Office Building. "Mr. Weyl," said Counsel Robert Morris of the Senate subcommittee on internal security, "have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" "Yes, I have, Mr. Morris," said Weyl firmly, and the room quieted to attentive silence. A few moments later reporters were scribbling: as a member of a Communist cell in Washington in 1934, Nathaniel Weyl swore that...