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During one twelve-hour siege the giant Enterprise had been driven back 41 miles. Steel gun shields were crushed. Catwalks were swept away as waves thundered over the flightdeck 50 feet above the water line. Water pouring through her open fo'c'sle deck split the seams of a 60-foot strip of steel bulkhead and flooded officers' quarters forward...
Togas & Trios. If the other logs were smaller, they were still of awkward sizes. Iran (see FOREIGN NEWS) posed a question the League never solved: what action will UNO take if a small power accuses a great power of aggression? Korea, still split between U.S. and Russian occupation zones, symbolized a whole set of answers needed on dependent areas and trusteeship. The Moscow press showed that Molotov was mincing no words on the Far East-Pravda challenged the presence of U.S. troops in China, and Izvestia complained that the U.S. tolerated "Japanese militarists in the toga of democrats...
...helped him by announcing that they would run their own presidential candidate. Earlier they had been expected to support the candidate of the Democratic Union, an anti-Perón coalition of Radicals, Socialists, Communists and Progressive Democrats. Thus the anti-Perón vote was split, the ex-colonel's cause advanced...
...embattled apostrophiles seized their pens and rushed to the defense. The Times offered editorially to split the difference, ban the apostrophe in plurals like 1890s "whether our own proofroom is for us or against us." It added a thank-you-ma'am: after bowing for years under questions of solemn import, the world could well use some small controversies...
...mainstay of Old Vic repertory, Actor Richardson is currently playing lead in two of its other productions, Arms and the Man and Uncle Vanya. He and his great friend, Actor Olivier, split the big male roles, as a team are unmatched today on the British stage...