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...entrance of Red China into the U.N. will inevitably precipitate a crisis on Taiwan, Lattimore declared. Ejection of the Nationalist U.N. representatives might well deal a lethal blow to the prestige of the Chiang government...
...Lethal Rendezvous. The first break in the case came when Harvey's widow recalled that the name of her husband's companion on the night of his death was "John Lynch." The name was also an alias frequently used by Floyd Albert Holzapfel, 36, a man with a curiously black-and-white background. A handsome, intelligent man, Holzapfel had been a wartime paratrooper who was wounded at Bastogne, a member of the Oklahoma City police department, a house detective at Miami's lush Deauville Hotel, an organizer of a West Palm Beach Young Republican Club...
Harvard's offense looked great in every department but scoring for the first half against Penn last week, then it stalled almost completely for the last two quarters. For its winning points the past two weeks, the Crimson has relied on an impotent but lethal passing attack; Harvard completed 3 of 14 passes against Dartmouth and Penn, but two went for game-winning touchdowns...
...Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. Soon after arriving in New Delhi three years ago, she noticed that even when she was in another part of the embassy with the doors closed, she began coughing when an embassy servant began sweeping. She reasoned that the sweeper himself must be inhaling a lethal quantity of dust-and could not be doing a very good cleaning job besides. Grabbing a long-handled, American-made broom, the ambassador's wife showed the sweeper how to use it so that the dust, instead of flying into the air, stayed in a tidy pile. Then, discovering that...
...gave firm promise that the U.S. is ready to move into a new age of security and deterrence with a revolutionary weapons system. The nuclear subs that are its launching platforms can roam the world's oceans at will, difficult to detect and destroy, ready to deliver their lethal birds on targets 1,200 miles away with an accuracy within a mile. One sub alone packs 16 missiles, and each shipload of missiles packs the explosive punch of all the bombs expended by both sides in World War II (including the A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...