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...Eden government, standing pat, was in the position of having to justify its conduct to many of its own countrymen. Out on Cyprus, with E.O.K.A.'s amnesty offer withdrawn, bombs and guns went off all over. Terrorists attacked two police stations near Nicosia. A limpet mine, presumably placed by an E.O.K.A. frogman, holed the bottom of a small vessel anchored at the very spot where French and British supply ships were scheduled to unload later in the week...
...latest News campaign began when Inquirer Truck Driver Henry J. Turner, 54, was beaten to death one night on the Inquirer parking lot. Turner's own paper headlined the news of the killing briefly, then dropped it. The News fastened to the story like a limpet. It charged that Turner's death resulted from his fight against loan sharks, "believed to be minor executives" of the Inquirer who were battening on circulation employees. Moreover, trumpeted the News, Philadelphia police have said, off the record, that they know who Turner's murderer is. The tabloid clamored for action...
Despite his nickname, Commander Lionel Kenneth ("Buster") Crabb was no great shakes as a surface swimmer; but given a pair of rubber flippers, some goggles and an oxygen tank, he was at home in the murky depths. In 1942 when Italian divers were busily attaching lethal limpet mines to the bottoms of Royal Navy ships at anchor off Gibraltar, Buster Crabb was even busier at the far more dangerous job of removing them. Mustered out of the navy at war's end with the George Medal for heroism, Crabb returned to civilian life as a salesman...
...Five years ago, studying water temperatures off Lower California, he camped at Santo Tomas, and with a true scientist's curiosity about things that did not directly concern him, he dug into an ancient Indian camp site and turned up the shell of a cryptochiton, a large, limpet-like mollusk...
...best known to the younger generation. Almost buried under Lanny's insupportable weight has been the early Upton Sinclair, the author of The Jungle, The Brass Check and Oil! Most admirers of the old Upton Sinclair have long felt sure that he would never manage to shake off limpet Lanny and re-emerge in anything like his old form...