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...systematically slowing down the work of clearing the Suez Canal. Last week, after U.N. salvage vessels finally raised and towed the cement-filled hulk Akka out of the main channel, the Egyptians continued to dawdle about removing explosives from the wrecked tug Edgar Bonnet, and thus effectively kept the ditch plugged. The U.S., however, was concerned less about Nasser's blackmail than about other Arab opinion...
...situation. Out of Washington came reports that Nasser was once again receiving shipments of Soviet arms. The Egyptians had been deliberately delaying the U.N. task force's Suez Canal clearance work by failing to dredge around and remove explosives from the only two important wrecks still blocking the ditch. After Egypt's first Cabinet meeting in several months, Nasser's radio announced that the Canal would not be opened to navigation until the last Israeli clears out of Egypt...
...skin grafts, became famous as the first victim of such severe burns to be saved by medical science. Last week, back in his native Midwest, Johnson was driving a truck near Jefferson City, Mo. He missed a turn, and his truck crashed into a ditch, caught fire. Clifford Johnson was burned to death...
...avail. It's almost as if the University were making a last ditch stand against The Machine knowing all the time that history is on the side of the 47 keys. In any case, you can count on another thought from us sometime around the end of April. Spring should be well under way by then...
Regionalism, once a coursing stream in U.S. art, today is a dry ditch, and probably a very good thing too. The astounding vistas of the opening West have become familiar to a nation on wheels; most regional art has degenerated into picturesque views suitable for sale to tourists at roadside stands. Art viewers have come to expect more from artists than a pleasant rendering of a sunset over the Grand Canyon or the pine-studded shores of Rockport...