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Around midnight on April 28, 1944, a force of 25,000 U.S. troops was preparing to make an amphibious landing at Slapton Sands, on the southern coast of England. The operation, known as Exercise Tiger, was a practice drill for the invasion of Normandy, just five weeks away. But things went badly. The night before, a British destroyer detailed to escort the convoy collided with another ship and was anchored at port, leaving the landing craft inadequately protected...
...local innkeeper. Small learned of the disaster in the early 1970s, after finding American coins and ammunition washed up on the beach, and he began lobbying the U.S. and British governments for a memorial. This week a simple but official plaque will be dedicated to the dead of Exercise Tiger. "I am not a religious man," says Small, "but I felt something driving me on to do this...
...even more plainly, Harvard mercilessly pressured freshman Tiger goalie Ron High with a total of 38 shots on goal in the final and overtime periods. Net result: four goals and an incredible victory...
...first project, which was to bedeck the Quad with tiger stripes, was originally scheduled for this fall, but was postponed because of delays in the Quad renovations, said Mayman. Mayman said that a spring project is in the works...
...effort to control Jaffna, the Tamils' last major stronghold, India last week increased its Tiger-fighting force to an estimated 11,000. A scheme to isolate Tamil leaders by offering conditional amnesty to the rebels' rank and file fizzled, however, when no Tigers accepted the offer...