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...discussing the vital question of rules of engagement -- that is, under what circumstances the peacekeepers could shoot. So the 25,000 U.S. and 12,000 other foreign troops remaining in Somalia may be stuck for weeks or months, and their duty remains hazardous. Last week Chief Warrant Officer Gus Axelson of the U.S. Marines took a bullet in the right shoulder while riding in a convoy in Mogadishu. He was the third U.S. military man wounded; one has been killed...
...ground you enter another world. Last weekend in Vermont New England's top collegiate jumpers demonstrated their graceful aerobatics at Middlebury College's 55 meter hill. DAVE RAND [top left and top right], Harvard's Nordic ski captain, flew to one of his best performances of the year. CHRIS AXELSON of Middlebury breaks out of the gate [left] and rushes towards ground zero [above]. A pensive face [right] precedes the jump, but once you've started, there's no turning back...
...leading man of Miss Moran's, Lawrence Gray, lent a dignified if uncertain grace to The Laugh Parade about the same time that Fay Wray starred in a short engagement of her husband's strange musical mixture, Nikki. Life Begins (by Mary McDougal Axelson; Joseph Santley, producer). When Vina Delmar's Bad Girl was dramatized last season it contained one brief scene in which a childbirth was indicated by means of a shadowgraph. At the time this sequence was regarded as potent, somewhat daring. Life Begins, whose entire action takes place in and around a maternity ward...
...Axelson Engine. Axelson Machine Co. of Los Angeles were justly vexed at the report that a broken valve had ended an endurance flight at Minneapolis (TIME, July 8). That plane was driven by a seven-cylinder radial Axelson motor (developed last year), which carried the Axelson pride?a device equalizing valve lifts and minimizing the strains which break valves. What investigation showed actually stopped the flight was a nut which broke because a mechanic had not properly tightened a companion...