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Ready to March. One critical sector had eased. Egypt's flare-up had preoccupied Churchill on his homeward voyage; messages in cipher raced back & forth between the Queen Mary and Downing Street. Eden, who had flown back from Washington, worked late and long in emergency conferences. So did the War Office. Britain's strategic reserves on Cyprus were readied for transfer to the Canal Zone; the Mediterranean Fleet was alerted. If King Farouk had not put down the revolt, the British were prepared to move on Egypt. After Farouk's action, Eden turned to conciliation, said Britain...
...baboons retreated, took to coming out at night to get revenge. Salmon and his men installed electric flare lamps along the runway to scare them off, but the baboons thought they were forest fires. One night a ghostly army of the creatures, led by an aged and skilled tactician, sneaked out of the forest and raced across the open to the flare lamps. They smashed at the fires with sticks and stones, swung at them with hairy fists, howling in warlike fury all the while. "It was some night," reported Manager Salmon dolefully. And it was enough. Last week Manager...
...during the frantic run. In the chart-room, two men tried to pick out the channel with an echo sounder. One thing was sure: the Amethyst had to hit the narrow opening in the boom or "she would slice off her bottom." As she approached it, a flare went up, Communist guns opened fire and the river erupted in waterspouts. Kerans saw a single light on the boom and prayerfully made a blind guess: "Steer just to port of the light." And the Amethyst went through without scraping her paint...
...national brands as Ex-Lax, Anacin, and Drene shampoo, left other prices unchanged. One Atlanta jewelry store caught the fever, cut diamond prices as much as 50%. Even in New York City, the war had simmered down to smaller price cuts, usually in cheaper lines. But there were still flare-ups. Union Square's S. Klein cut men's suits and women's dresses, was swamped with customers. In eight minutes, Klein's sold 1,000 two-pants men's suits at $19.95. In half an hour, 2,000 women's dresses...
There was one other flare-up, but it soon fizzled. Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, who had got his fingers burned when he tried to compel General Omar Bradley to repeat confidential conversations with the President, edged back to the subject with long tongs in his hand. Acheson likewise refused. "I am under direct instructions of the President of the U.S. not to repeat what was said at these meetings at his office," he said...