Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardest to remove would be the cement-laden Akka, which they sank midway in the canal, and the tangled wreckage of the Firdan bridge, which they dynamited and then accused the Anglo-French of having destroyed from the air. In 2½ days last week two powerful German lifting craft and a pair of tugs cleared a passage past the dynamited bridge with so little apparent difficulty that a disquieted Egyptian army officer watching from the bank remarked: "By Allah, we did not expect them to work that fast...
...second: the clearing of the canal. The British wanted the U.N. to use the British 20-ship salvage fleet to clear the remaining 13 wrecks in Port Said harbor, and to help remove wrecks lodged farther south in the canal. The U.N. wanted these ships, especially six lifting craft, but the sticking point was their crews. Nasser refused to contemplate British and French sailors' sailing up and down the canal...
...PRESENCE OF GRACE, by J. F. Powers. A collection of short stories that move about with impressive sureness in the U.S. Roman Catholic world of harried priests and puzzled parishioners, and put Author Powers in the highest bracket of his craft...
REFUGEE AIRLIFT is giving nonscheduled airlines biggest boom since Korean war. CAB has issued nonskeds 29 permits for refugee flights, will soon approve 24 more. Every usable overwater craft will be pressed into service. So great is need that asking price for used DC-4s has jumped from $550,000 apiece...
...TIME, Feb. 6), his prowess as editor, critic and scholar has inspired many a praiseful chorus. Last week Mencken's own voice floated out of the past to re-create his sparkle as a conversationalist and his flinty views on a range of targets-including his own craft. The Library of Congress issued two long-playing records ($7.50) of an interview made for its files by Mencken and the Baltimore Sun's Donald H. Kirkley Sr. Taped in June 1948, only five months before a stroke ended his career, the interview is the only record that remains...