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Against the enemy's swarming MIG-155, U.S. Sabre jet pilots more than held their own last week. They lost three Sabres to the Red jets' cannon, but downed twelve MIGs, damaged 14 more. The U.N.'s slower tactical planes had the usual good hunting against ground targets, but paid for it heavily. Three F-84s, four F-80s, four F-51s, a B-26 light bomber and a Corsair were lost to the enemy's sharpshooting flak crews. In number of U.N. planes lost-16 in all-it was the worst week...
...thundering 21-gun salute from an unseen man-o'-war rumbled in the fog off Barcelona harbor. Ancient Spanish cannon in the fort protecting the harbor bellowed their reply. Out of the mist loomed two U.S. cruisers and three destroyers. It was the U.S. Sixth Fleet's first operational visit in Franco's day, to Spain's well-sheltered Mediterranean ports. All told, 30 U.S. warships, including the 45,000-ton aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, the carrier Tarawa (27,100 tons) and three heavy cruisers, steamed into eight Spanish ports last week...
...coastal nation controls the sea around it. Some nations, e.g., Spain, Italy, Iran, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Brazil, claim a six-mile limit; others, e.g., the Scandinavians, claim four. Most countries accept the limit of three marine miles, a tradition that goes back to the 18th Century, when a good cannon on the shore could heave a ball three miles to sea.* But many governments have added qualifications which extend their claims beyond three miles, and they never have been able to agree on where the measuring begins. Some measure by the high-water mark, others low-water; others begin...
...Known either as Bynkershoek's rule, for its propounder, Dutch Jurist Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1673-1743), or as the cannon-fire rule...
Christmas came to Harvard yesterday. Disguising himself as Santa Claus, Walter F. Cannon, a Social Sciences I section man, has returned all essays to his students with Yule trimmings. Even failing papers were handed back tightly rolled and bound with gaily colored ribbon. Lollypops and Christmas tags with the students' first names on them were also attached...