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...Washington decided to stand firm at Quemoy. The Joint Chiefs sent a Tactical Air Command task force of scores of medium jet bombers and supersonic jet interceptors to Formosa, sent carriers Essex and Midway to reinforce the four carriers in the Seventh Fleet, ordered the Seventh Fleet to escort Chinese Nationalist supply convoys to within three miles of Quemoy. A week later the President, in a speech from the White House, capped the U.S. effort: "A Western Pacific Munich would not buy us peace. There is not going to be any appeasement...
...Philippine time when a small flight of Japanese planes pierced the defenses of "Taffy 3," a task unit of U.S. escort carriers east of Leyte. One nosed over into a power dive. As he held his target in sight, the pilot knew every second of the way that he was headed for death. Yet he kept going until he crashed and died amid fire and explosion in the side of the carrier St. Lo. The St. Lo sank. Over a 130-mile front, other Japanese planes dived against her sister carriers. That night, Oct. 25, 1944, Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo...
Bundled into "association wards" (i.e., cells) in St. James Fort prison, the prisoners were forbidden to see their relatives or even to receive food from them. At one point, Nkrumah's strong-arm Minister of the Interior, Krobo ("The Crowbar") Edusei, inspected them along with an escort of guards armed with truncheons. Over the radio the government insisted that it had no desire to curb the opposition, even proclaimed the end of a two-month-old ban on political meetings. But The Crowbar, a mug through and through, was not yet done with his work...
...Tercentenary Commencement. There was no choice but to invite the Governor; and he put on a very fine show. Consistent in minute detail to the precedent of the colonial governors (which had not been observed since Harvard's Centennial), Curley heralded his arrival with a massed band, an escort of fully-armed lancers, the National Guard, trumpet sounds, bugle calls, the beating of drums, the shooting of guns, and the cheers of a mixed collection of Boston Irish such as Harvard Yard had never imagined. He reminded the assembly that the last President to address a Harvard anniversary celebration, Grover...
Destroyer Escort. In Claremore, Okla., two bootleggers transporting 96 gal. of whisky in their 1958 car were caught despite 1) a carpet tack dispenser between the rear wheels, 2) a trap door designed to dump 10 Ibs. of tacks on the road in deeper emergencies, and 3) a pressurized oil tank that produced a thick smoke screen from the exhaust...