Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zooming Jets. Last week eight British jet fighters paused at Gibraltar en route to Norway. To the Gibraltarians' delight, the jets, in a show of force, zoomed round and round the Rock, made low passes over the water off the Spanish coast. Britain may well be prepared to offer two concessions to Spain: a crackdown on the smuggling annoyance, and a guarantee that no matter how much self-government the Rock obtains, it will never become a base for any hostility toward Spain...
...face of creeping mergerism, at least, one department of the University has held its its ground. Despite the token offering of coupons to Cliffies this fall, co-eds were turned away en masse last week when they attempted to transfer No. 29 for the opportunity to see Bill Bradley and his Princeton cohorts in action...
...En route to El Alamein, the Frenchmen sweat and struggle while the German sneers. When they are bogged down in the sand, he refuses to dig. When he begins to unbend and reaches under a seat to offer an injured man a first-aid kit, they clobber him unconscious. Shirtless and wearing German army caps, they join a German troop convoy and narrowly escape disaster when a French P.W. in the convoy recognizes one of the fugitives (France's singing idol, Charles Aznavour) as a countryman. Later, in one fine funny scene, the Frenchmen push...
...Crusaders streaked off the decks of the U.S. aircraft carriers Ranger, Hancock and Coral Sea, all steaming about 100 miles off South Viet Nam in the South China Sea. The jets headed for Donghoi, 160 miles above the 17th parallel, a major staging point for Red guerrillas en route south. The bombers inflicted "considerable" damage, said McNamara, up from his sickbed. One plane was shot down, but its pilot was plucked from...
...woman has come with her child to meet her husband at the refinery where he works. He introduces her to a mining engineer (Richard Harris) who has stopped off en route to South America. Mutually attracted, the wife and the engineeer begin to meet for talks now and then, and finally he makes love to her, though neither of them seems to enjoy it very much. Then he goes away, and she is right back where she started. Or nearly...