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...winning the friendship of the Formosans was lightly regarded. But in recent months two events-the Chinese reds increased attacks on Chiang's offshore islands and President Eisenhower's refusal to support a nationalist invasion of the mainland-have changed Formosa from an offensive base into a "beleaguered fortress," a status which it will probably hold for some time. And in this prolonged war of nerves, the strength of Formosan Chinese Nationalist relations will largely determine the future of the island...
...International Harvester, a key fortress of the Red-led Farm Equipment-United Electrical Workers union has been the Rock Island (Ill.) Local 109, with more than 3,000 workers employed at the Farmall tractor works. Two years ago, Local 109 leaders had such a firm grip on the rank and file that the C.I.O. United Auto Workers withdrew an application for an NLRB election for fear of being trounced. Last week the U.A.W. went into a second NLRB election with no intention of quitting...
...storm the U.S. embassy. On Cyprus four days later, students staged noisy protest marches in several cities, stoned U.S. consular buildings, clashed with tear-gas-throwing police and British Tommies. The U.N. had just voted (with U.S. support) to table Greece's claim to the strategic British island fortress of Cyprus...
Inside the dirty red brick fortress of Spandau in the British sector of Berlin, behind a maze of walls, electric fences and steel doors guarded by the machine guns and soldiers of four nations, Prisoner No. 3, an old man of 81, was dying. Once...
...crusading tide ebbed, the Saracens picked off one beleaguered Christian fortress after another-Antioch, Tripoli, and finally, in 1291, Tyre and Acre. That was the end of the Prankish kingdom in the East, though the West went on talking for centuries of liberating Jerusalem (Vasco da Gama and Columbus both piously hoped to take it from the rear...