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...police station. Fighting swiftly spread to Limassol itself (pop. 31,000 Greeks, 6,000 Turks), and some 50 persons were killed or wounded in a series of fire fights for such strongpoints as a local brewery and the 12th century castle where England's Richard the Lion-Hearted married Berengaria of Navarre. British troops from the adjacent Akrotiri airfield finally separated the antagonists and won agreement to a ceasefire. But then the Greek Cypriots, supported by two homemade tanks, launched a dawn assault on the Turkish quarter...
Melancholiacs may get a lift from the clownish affenpinscher, a tiny cross between a terrier and a Pekingese, whose funny face is wreathed in a perpetual smile. Nonconformists will appreciate a Rhodesian ridgeback, an African lion dog that must be patted from tail to head because his fur grows that way. Heavy drinkers might find use for a puli, a shaggy sheepherder famed for its ability to guide strays back into the fold. And antique collectors will want the world's oldest dog, the saluki, which appears in Sumerian carvings as early as 6000 B.C. The Arabs call...
...Burlingame reported that closing down its South Bend auto plant (TIME, Dec. 20) cost the company $64 million -for canceling contracts, writing off inventories, paying workers' severance and losses on plant and equipment. Result: after earning $489,500 in 1962, the company rode in with a $16.9 mil lion loss...
...surprising Columbia swimming team took the first three events against Crimson second-liners here Saturday, but Harvard coach Bill Brooks rudely popped the Lion bubble by turning loose his top performers in the next seven races to give his squad a 54-40 victory...
...Lion sophomore Charlie Hamilton broke the Harvard string with a victory in the 100-yard freestyle, but Crimson swimmers followed that interruption with sweeps of the next three events to sew up the victory. Earl Showerman and Al Lincoln took the 200-yard backstroke; Dave Abramson and Bob Meredith finished one-two in 500-yard freestyle, and Bruce Fowler and Porky Pitts scored in the 200-yard breastroke...