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...itself, a small (pop. 10,000) fishing town of unpaved streets. They slaughtered a score of sleeping Spanish sentries and made off with some trucks and mules. The Spanish, who last month jailed a few local Moslems for demonstrating in favor of King Mohammed, had quietly reinforced the Ifni garrison with several hundred paratroopers and Foreign Legionnaires. Shouting their battle cry of "Long Live Death," the Legionnaires led a counterattack into the hills that drove most of the invaders back across the frontier and cost them an estimated 100 dead, 200 wounded. Announced Spanish casualties: 5 dead, 43 wounded...
Stepping briskly past the Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum, where new Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky took the salute that two weeks earlier would have gone to Zhukov, the troops of the Moscow garrison drew a roar of cheers; so did the trim female marchers of the Spartak Sports Club, who carried a large globe around which revolved two model Sputniks. But the hardware that clanked through the world's most effective display case for military might was impressive chiefly for mass rather than quality. Of the 38 different rockets displayed, all were short-range with the possible exception...
...four backs line up in a Starting Lineups OHIO HARVARD Garrison LE Copeland Woods LT Shaunessy McCormick LG Walker Mallett C Foster Fisher RG Anderson Fenik RT Briggs Gallagher RE Hooper Stobart QB McLaughlin Carney LH Boulris Hilles RH Stahura Buckles FB Halaby
...southern Algerian garrison town of Colomb-Béchar one morning last week crept a strange train on an expensive errand. Its locomotive, heavily armored, was preceded by six freight cars loaded with sandbags. Its average speed on its way to Ain-Sefra, another garrison town 170 miles to the northeast, was a hesitant 13 m.p.h. Whenever it reached a bridge, invariably a bridge thrown up temporarily by French Army engineers-it slowed down to a walk...
...first got a month's furlough to serve as aide to his father during the Allied drive across France. After the war, traveling with Ike, John watched parades in Moscow with Stalin, danced with Princess Margaret at Balmoral Castle. Promoted to captain in 1946, he commanded U.S. garrison troops in Austria, in Vienna met, wined and dined and soon married (1947) Barbara Jean Thompson, slim, calm, brunette daughter of an Army colonel...