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...Good Thing We're Going." Angry, bitter and resentful at the Iranian and the British governments both, the last garrison of 322 British technicians left on the British cruiser Mauritius, after a night at the local Gymkhana Club and the Guest House Bar, when they made a manful effort to polish off a three-month supply of whisky in one glorious but decorous gulp. Even Vera ("Hard-Hearted Hannah") Flavell, the penny-pinching proprietress of the Guest House, had proclaimed drinks on the house. By the time the evacuees arrived at the Gymkhana Club once again for customs inspection...
Fluidity & Security. The British cruiser Mauritius lay at anchor off Abadan, but no order for action came from London. Instead, Clement Attlee called his ministers to more emergency sessions over the Iran crisis. A show of force, the Prime Minister decided, must be collective. He dispatched an urgent personal message to President Harry Truman in Washington. Its contents were not disclosed. The U.S. reply cautioned against force, urged "moderation" and "fluidity...
Around the U.S., other stores were plugging foreign goods as hard as Macy's. Into Boston Harbor last week steamed the British cruiser Superb and the frigate Snipe. Over the side came a stream of sailors, who, as bands played, marched straight for Boston's Jordan Marsh Co. department store to open up its "Salute to Britain." On display were $750,000 worth of British imports. Dallas' A. Harris & Co. ended its exhibition of more than 5,000 imports from 26 countries, while Los Angeles' J. W. Robinson Co. got ready to put on a similar...
...position of the ditched fighter and a U.S. helicopter dropped a marking buoy. A British 1,600-ton frigate, a South Korean motor launch and a U.S. Navy shallow-draft landing craft equipped with a crane moved in through treacherous sand bars to retrieve the prize, while a cruiser and carrier planes stood by to ward off enemy interference. Darkness and high tide interrupted the operation and the allied craft had to stay on the spot all night. Next morning they got the MIG on board and made off with it safely...
...small, self-contained unit that will fit anything from a Jeep to a Cadillao 75. Among older cars class and headlight size go together. When one gets into the higher grade of vehicles the huge lenses and reflectors in their polished housing look like something borrowed from a light cruiser. No mistaking the proles for their betters, even at night...