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...Legion Museum lay the wooden hand of one-armed Captain Jean Danjou, who died with 39 other Legionnaires in a last-ditch stand against 2,000 Mexicans in 1863. In the courtyard surrounded by the pink-walled barracks stood the Monument to the Dead-a bronze terrestrial globe guarded by four bigger-than-life statues of Legionnaires. Sentries in white kepis still stood guard before the gate bearing the inscription Légion Etrangère, but packing cases were piled on stair landings and in mess halls, and Legion tanks and halftracks were clanking down the road to Oran...
With increasingly totalitarian methods, the white leaders of South Africa are building a southern redoubt for a last-ditch stand against black nationalism on their bottom tip of the continent. Last week the government of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd proposed new legislation that will snuff out basic freedoms of all South Africans, black and white...
...Laotian delegation was determined to go on looking for dollars,to finance its last-ditch stand against the U.S. line, planned to stop at South Viet Nam, Formosa, South Korea. Since these countries are heavily supported by the U.S.. it would merely be a roundabout way of getting U.S. funds, and the chances looked slim. For better or worse, the U.S. is still determined to force the anti-Communists of Laos into neutrality...
...bottom of the ninth inning, Springfield loaded the bases in a last-ditch rally. But Yarbro, after giving two passes, got back his control and struck out the side. The Box HARVARD (13) ab r h Drummey 3b 2 2 0 Bartolet 2b 6 2 3 Morse as 6 2 2 Bernstein 1b 3 1 3 Gilmor cf 5 3 1 Combs lf 4 1 1 Diehl c 5 0 2 St. George rf 5 1 3 Yarbro p 4 1 2 Total 41 13 17 SPRINGFIELD (3) ab r h Halgas 2b 5 0 1 Stam...
...personal domain. Said he: "The federation is mine." When the news finally arrived, Sir Roy exploded. "This is not good enough." he roared, ordering; a London-bound BOAC Comet in mid-flight to stop in Salisbury and pick him up. Then he headed for the British capital in a last-ditch effort to get the plan changed...