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...Quemoy into a no-holds-barred war, the U.S. was ready. Last week the disparate units and individuals on Formosa were reorganized into a unified combat command under Vice Admiral Roland Smoot. Between them, the new Formosa Defense Command and the Seventh Fleet's Task Force 77 could hammer China with a destructive power unequalled in the previous history of warfare. But, barring an almost incredible improvement in supply techniques, the Chinese Communists held Quemoy in a vise so tight that they need never challenge the mighty force that the U.S. has assembled on Formosa...
...Turkish Finance Minister Hasan Polat-kan came to hammer out the precise uses to which inflation-ridden Turkey will put the $359 million in aid it has been promised by the U.S. and the members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. He was rewarded with the grant of an immediate $75 million to finance vitally needed imports...
MUTUAL BROADCASTING, with 448 affiliates in the U.S., has been taken over by Scranton Corp., controlled by Detroit's F. L. Jacobs Co., auto-parts maker. Scranto'n paid more than $2,000,000 to syndicate headed by Los Angeles Oilman Armand Hammer, which bought Mutual for about $660,000 last year...
There wasn't any door for the damned to hammer on, and the Second Empire mantlepiece "bronze atrocity" was still in the papier mache stage, and two stark spotlights caught the players in a cross-fire. But these things would be rectified by the final rehearsal. The drama itself is an achievement...
Ultimate Weapon. In Palm Springs, Calif., after Georgia Mae Love hit her husband on the nose with a claw hammer, stabbed him in the arm with a steak knife, and tried to ram his truck with her Hillman Minx, police booked her for disturbing the peace, discovered a three-foot bullwhip in her brassiere...