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...island of Pinglangyu and planted Nationalist flags on the beach. In Taipei, Nationalist President Chiang Kaishek declared that conditions on the mainland resembled those of 1911, "when even the officers and men of the Manchu 'new army' were longing for the great day that was soon to dawn." With stubborn, visionary optimism, Chiang predicted large-scale uprisings soon in Red China, and promised that he would then launch a "massive counteroffensive" to help topple the Communists...
...Auto Workers last week called a lack-of-time strike against the Ford Motor Co., the first company-wide strike since the U.A.W. organized the Ford empire 20 years ago. Negotiators had spent so long hammering out the specifics of the new contract's economic demands that by dawn of the deadline day there was no time left to resolve such noneconomic issues as more union control over worker assignments and more relief time. Both sides lost the race with the clock, and out walked 120,000 Ford workers...
...years had the Middle East seen so quick and clean a coup. Streaking, north from barracks outside Damascus, a slim rebel force of 20 tanks seized the capital at dawn. There were no mob scenes, no assassinations and almost no gunfire. When they tuned into Damascus radio at breakfast, Syrians learned that they had been "liberated" from the United Arab Republic, of which their country had been an uneasy part for nearly four years. In northern Syria, Aleppo radio went dead in the midst of the anthem, Beloved Nasser, Lover of Egypt and Syria -returning ten minutes later with...
...bird watchers like to believe. The Truro radar spotted many of them being blown out to sea at night by strong northwest winds. Apparently they did not know, in the darkness, that they were off course. The radar often picked them up heading back toward shore as soon as dawn came, as if in search of familiar landmarks, before they continued flying on their planned migration...
Identical Twin. Sergeant Duarte led his company of Rangers on a night raid against a Viet Cong village. Surprise was complete, and he returned at dawn with five Communist prisoners. Looking carefully at one, Medic Williams said, "I'm sure I've seen him right here in my daily line-up of patients. Either that, or he has an identical twin...