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...January 1949, an LST flying the red-and-blue ensign of Nationalist China pulled away from the dock at Nanking and headed down the muddy Yangtze, its tank deck crammed with a priceless cargo. Another heavily laden LST had already made its way safely across the East China Sea to Formosa. Later, a freighter was to complete the epic task of saving from Communist hands the art treasures assembled over the centuries, and collected in the Peking Palace Museum and Nanking's Central Museum...
...schedule it climbed above a high cloud deck and disappeared. The spectators waited while it climbed into space, and while it turned down and fired its final stages. The last stage is small, certainly not big enough to be seen at that distance under ordinary circumstances, but when the X-17 struck through the cloud deck, it was moving so fast that it had become a man-made meteor, brilliantly visible 80 miles away. Most of its plunging metal must have vaporized...
...race started as it did against Syracuse: the Crimson jumping into a slight lead, Princeton about a deck length behind, and the rest of the crews wallowing in their wash. As the race progressed, the varsity, rowing a steady 31, maintained this lead over Princeton, while the Tigers, stroking 32, were content to lay back and wait for the finish...
...underdog, Robinson softened up the 25-year-old champion with two solid right hand punches to the body and then drove home a terrific left that dropped Fullmer to the Chicago Stadium deck...
...high point of the Dunces' efforts achieve their hopes: Winter is the Time to Snow your Girl, by member Erich Segal, is light, like a boyishly risque Deck the Halls: "Nothing could be gayer, than to one-horse-open-sleigh her." Hound (dog) has as much rock, and more down-to-earthiness than Mr. Presley's. Soloist Bill Gurton captures the true flavor of America's adolescent subculture, though the record does not convey his physical talents...