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...coastal ferryboat Takshing, flying the British flag, put out from Hong Kong one night last week on her regular three-hour run to Portuguese Macao. In the China Sea, a Red Chinese gunboat came up, signaled the ship to stop. But her captain ignored the order until the Communist craft sent a burst of machine-gun fire across the Takshing...
Winston Churchill summoned his cabinet for a three-hour emergency session last week. Topic: Iran. The word afterward was that the British were coming around to Washington's view that the fall of weepy Premier Mohammed Mossadegh would probably bring the Communist Tudeh party into power. They no longer saw any real alternative, now that the last pro-British Premier (Ahmed Qavam) had been shoved aside, the young Shah rendered helpless, and the Iranian army brought under Mossadegh's control. But they still shrank from going to Mossadegh's aid and on his terms: helping...
Comes the Bull. After a three-hour telecon talk with the Pentagon, Clark moved to set things to rights. He had already fired Colson as commandant; he now repudiated Colson's concessions as having "no validity whatsoever." Clark sent a tough, Chinese-speaking combat commander, Brigadier General Haydon Lemaire Boatner, to take over on Koje, followed by the battle-seasoned 187th Airborne Regiment, 3,000 men strong...
Arrested students last night charged that Cambridge police exercised "outrageous mishandling" in the three-hour fracas that turned Harvard Square into an early-evening battlefield. The allegations of more than a dozen undergraduates were supported by additional scores of bystanders...
...miniscule candlepower developed by the room's scanty and misdirected illumination. This last adjustment is the most difficult, and the delay caused by all the squinting and straining required is a harsh and unnecessary burden, especially for those in courses like Humanities I where each question on a three-hour exams needs three hours to write an adequate answer...