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They came bearing royal gifts (Mongolian horses and a baby bear) to court British favor, but they were in a hostile land. Russia's Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev knew it the moment their sleek cruiser Ordzhonikidze slid into Portsmouth harbor last week...
...forth from Kaliningrad (née Konigsberg) on the cruiser Ordzhonikidze, Scotland Yard completed its survey of more than 200 Russian and satellite exile groups, to make sure that none of their more ardent spirits would have a chance to take a potshot at the visitors...
...dawn broke over the small Algerian fishing port of Collo, the grim shape of a French cruiser materialized out of the darkness. Even as French children swarmed down to the beach to cheer, Georges Leygues' 8-in. guns swung shoreward and thundered salvo after salvo into the hills behind the town. Minutes later, French planes strafed the target area. Marines swarmed ashore from the cruiser, trucks carrying Senegalese troops roared up the road from Philippeville and swung up into the hills. It was the first combined air-sea-ground operation of the French in Algeria, aimed at the concentration...
...United Planets Cruiser C-57-D, soaring along on its quanto-gravitetic hyperdrive, is more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of Alpha Aquilae. As it approaches the Planet Altair-4, it changes flux, reverses polarity, sits down gently as great hairy bolts of blue electricity spray out to cushion the landing. Gangways flip down; scouts run out. The sky is green, the surrounding desert an odd shade of pink. Suddenly a big. black robot drives up, addresses the commander (Leslie Nielsen) in cultured English, invites him to visit the planet...
Died. Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan, 84, Commander (1917-20) of the Grand Fleet's 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, Naval Aide-de-Camp (1930-31) to George V; of pneumonia; in Leamington, England...