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...Date Fatidique, glittering Casablanca was closed down like a morgue. The wealthy fled to Tangier, the poor boarded up their doors. In the medinas from Fez to Marrakech, white-kepied Legionnaires set up machine guns and searchlights, covering the street intersections. Nationalist agitators sawed down telephone poles and tore down the street lamps, to ensure darkness for their escape...
...Havoc. In Wallsend, Australia, Hilton Clifford, 42, fell into a beery sleep during a cops-and-robbers movie, woke up when the villain was bludgeoning the heroine, ran through the town yelling for help, tore up a wooden station house gate to attract police to the scene, was fined ?1 ($2.24), ordered to pay ?10 damages...
Shrewdly advised by Grant and Bautzer, she tore down some old brownstones at 57th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan that were bringing her $8,000 a year, got the Tishman Realty & Construction Co. to put up and lease the 22-story, aluminum-sheathed Davies Building. It pays her about $120,000 a year. Down came a block of flats on her property at 55th Street and Madison Avenue, and now abuilding is the 17-story Douras Building, named for her father, onetime Manhattan Judge Barney Douras, which will bring her about $50,000 a year. By improving property...
...from Churchill's first speeches. Obviously he was irritated at the way Eden & Co. had reversed themselves and grabbed at his "parley at the summit" policy the instant he retired. But Sir Winston was too good a party man to let personal pique last the whole campaign. He tore into Labor "with all its paraphernalia of restrictions and regulations . . .," lauded Sir Anthony as "a statesman long versed in parliamentary and cabinet government," and urged Britons to give him "generous and effective support." And in Essex he answered the Labor charge in his own way: "I gave up my office...
Rosen's book, written with dry humor, recounts many such troubles with lurking, inanimate devils. One by one they were driven out of their hiding places, although one Viking blew up and another tore itself free during a static test. At last, after years of trying, Viking7 triumphed, rising 137 miles and exceeding the altitude record (114 miles) of the much larger and more expensive German V2. In 1954, Viking-11 established a new record (158 miles) for a single-stage rocket...