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...episodes Fisher learned about were comical. One Anguillian school had 350 students in a single room. Schools in general were wildly under-staffed. Requisitions for chalk and other supplies were ignored by the officials on St. Kitts, and application forms for British standardized tests--the equivalents of college boards--went untransmitted...
...reminiscent of the Chinese in Korea, wave after wave of Viet Cong rolled over each other toward the camp. This time a hail of fire from a battalion of U.S. defenders and the miniguns of circling American gunships stopped the assault short of the fort's outer fences. Chalk up another 20 Viet Cong dead, plus many bodies that would be found at the end of trails of blood leading away from the camp...
Teledyne, Inc. of Los Angeles has grown into a $400 million-a-year technological complex in only seven years by thinking big and moving fast. Founder-Chairman Henry E. Singleton, 50, who keeps a blackboard in his office for rapid-fire chalk talks on the intricacies of his company, obviously believes that those with whom Teledyne deals should move fast too. Earlier this month, Teledyne offered $40 a share for 7,500,000 outstanding shares of United Insurance Co. of America (assets: $303 million). United stock was then selling at $27. Last week, apparently because directors of the Chicago-based...
...another compound, hundreds of the rank and file of the PLA pressed against the barbed-wire and called to reporters; Israeli soldiers sporting sub-machine guns converged on them and forced them back to a white, chalk line several feed from the barb wire. One of the prisoners, their spokesman, held up a piece of paper which he promised would prove that they were refugees on the U.N. payroll and not soldiers. The contract, upon closer examination, had expired on May 31, five days before the battle for Gaza; U Thant's withdrawal had left them in the hole...
...York's East Harlem, Puerto Ricans broke windows, looted and sniped from rooftops for three nights after a policeman fatally shot a man who had pulled a knife on him. At one point, the youths who led the rioting drew a chalk line across Third Avenue and tauntingly wrote: "Puerto Rican territory. Don't cross, flatfoot...