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Inescapable Implication. Hoxha's feud with Britain went beyond diplomatic skirmishing. Last May the British cruisers Orion and Superb were cruising in the Strait of Corfu, a 2-to 15-mile-wide corridor between Albania and the Greek island of Corfu. An Albanian shore battery opened fire, missed. Last month the Royal Navy destroyers Saumarez and Volage, cruising in the same Strait, ran into mines, were crippled. Casualties totaled 38 dead, 50 injured. British indignation was heated. Said a high-ranking Royal Navy officer: "There's no difference between this and bombing the British Home Fleet at Scapa...
...that wasn't all. Inside the field house, trainer Eddie Farrell, a Harvard institution himself and the team's most ardent supporter, installed a record-player in a corridor, and College songs invaded the dressing room and showers. Yale game cometh...
Smashed Window. In this area, the economic plexus centering on Kalgan, the Japs built and left largely intact an ambitious and forward-looking economic plant. The Communists fell heir to the prize, which served them as a powerful corridor between Yenan and Manchuria and a "show window" of policy for all the nation. Not only did they fail to defend this area militarily, but as they fell back before the Government armies they kicked in the show window, leaving a destructive disarray appalling in a nation so economically needy as China...
...heavy beams, supporting a heavy crosspiece with a hook for the rope in the middle. An inconspicuous lever served to open the traps. The space beneath the traps was hidden by curtains. 1:11 a.m. Two white-helmeted guards led Joachim von Ribbentrop from his cell down the corridor and across the courtyard. He walked as in a trance, his eyes half closed. The wind ruffled his sparse grey hair. Overhead, the same wind whipped clouds into bizarre patterns...
...steps of Emerson. "Buster, things have changed," he said to one of the tweed jackets. The answer was an unseeing eye. "The New England Frappe Bar, men with women and General Education." Vag agreed with himself-- "Things have certainly changed." He elbowed his way through the perfumed corridor to audit a general education...