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Sixth Day. The desert blitz ended. Israeli forces marched triumphantly into the ancient and grubby city of Gaza, where blinded Samson pulled down the pillars and destroyed the temple. They found only a handful of dull-eyed, curious Arabs, the raveled remnants of an Egyptian division, and the unhappy Egyptian Governor General of the Gaza Strip. He put his name to the surrender papers and handed over to Israel some 325 square miles of disputed real estate and the perplexing responsibility for some 250,000 ragged, ill-housed, ill-fated Palestinian refugees...
HIGH PRESSURE DEALERS, who specialize in unlisted and speculative issues, will get full-scale investigation. SEC has received so many complaints of blitz telephone campaigns to sell often-worthless issues that it is already investigating at least six Manhattan firms...
...seven kids from a swimming pool and hauled them off, still dripping, in bathing suits. In High Point an hour-long traffic jam developed around the Ray Street School. Reason for the activity: North Carolina, 47th among the states in fulfillment of polio vaccination goals, was staging a blitz campaign to get out in front. In Guilford County (pop. 209,000) alone, busy physicians donated their time to man 55 clinics...
...them in the South) turned back 2,430,000 shots, largely because schools had closed before adequate supplies became available. In North Carolina the state medical society took the more vigorous step - it deter mined not to turn the vaccine back, but to put it to work. When the blitz began, only about a third of an estimated 1,935,000 Tarheels eligible for the vaccine (all under 20, and pregnant women) had re ceived it. Guilford County, which had a better-than-average showing to start with (45,000 vaccinated out of 60,000-65,000 eligible), rang...
Many an archaeologist has eyed a handsome modern structure and secretly thought of what treasures he might find beneath it, if only somebody would blow it up. The German blitz on London in World War II provided just such an archaeologist's windfall, exposing ancient ruins sealed fof centuries by the close-built modern city. Last week Director William Grimes of the London Museum described the discovery of two blockhouses which the Romans built either to protect Londinium, or to protect themselves from Londinium's people...