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...were a pie, while her three admiring daughters look on. "Today," continued the ad, "a lot of wives and daughters have joined their husbands at the reloading bench." For less well-adjusted families and individuals with a thing about weapons, the magazines advertise submachine guns, silencers, antitank guns, cannon, and Nazi insignia...
...Egyptian cannon fired again last week, this time in welcome to one of the Arabs' staunchest friends, Josip Broz Tito. When the Yugoslav President's plane arrived in Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser warmly embraced his 75-year-old visitor. Then, after reviewing the Egyptian honor guard, the two leaders drove off to Nasser's presidential palace for three days of talk about war and peace...
...Arab countries to a visiting French diplomat in Moscow. Despite the Russian hand on the key, there were daily skirmishes last week between Egyptian and Israeli forces stationed along the Suez Canal. Egyptian artillery shelled Israeli positions on the east bank. The Israelis replied with withering rocket and cannon fire, finally sent in jets to strafe Egyptian artillery positions. They also sank two Soviet-made torpedo boats off the Gaza coast. As the week ended, the two sides were lobbing shells and bombs at each other across the canal in the heaviest battle since the U.N. imposed a cease-fire...
This time at Newport, the crucial moment (see diagram) came 2 min. before the starting cannon, when Cunningham, after crossing the line early, swung Columbia around to get back onside. Instantly, Mosbacher spun Intrepid's wheel; his foredeck crew ran up a jib to windward-and in a flash Intrepid cut inside Columbia to gain the right of way. When Mosbacher jibed and crossed the starting line, Columbia was hopelessly backwinded and 40 sec. behind...
...defeat wears off. "If the situation persists," warned Hussein last week, "there is a grave danger that war will occur again." That danger was illustrated dramatically by last week's Arab-Israeli clash at Suez, which quickly escalated from sporadic firing to aerial dogfights and full-scale cannon barrages...