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...lock on the Band Room door was evidently tampered with," commented Trottenberg; "however, it may very well have been an eager Band member trying to get his instrument." "There is no tangible evidence of arson," Trottenberg emphasized...
...glamour of regatta week. The grandstands disappeared, traffic flow through the quaint town square returned to normal. But to eight Crimson rowers, their coxswain, their coach, and to their thousands of fans, this little village would always be a symbol of a magnificent effort.The lightweight eight in the Thames lock...
...crowded the site of Kuibyshev dam last week for the opening of the power station. There were brass bands and the Volga People's Choir, flags and gigantic pictures of Lenin and Nikita Khrushchev. As Party Boss Khrushchev stepped jauntily forward and cut the ribbon stretched across the lock gates, he beamed a toothy smile at cheering excursionists aboard the motorship Dmitry Pozharsky, the first vessel to pass through the locks. He moved on to the engine room of Turbine No. 17 and pulled the handle of the automatic starter. As the turbine began to rotate, sending the first...
...bypass is the only major seaway works in U.S. territory. Going upstream from Lake St. Francis, ships will move into the Wiley-Dondero Ship Channel, rise a total of 90 ft. in the Snell Lock and the Eisenhower Lock ("Ike's dike," in seaway slang), pass on into the new, still unnamed lake. At the western end of the lake, a 5-ft. lift in Ontario's Iroquois Lock will hoist westbound ships into the calm waters of the upper St. Lawrence for easy steaming upstream to Lake Ontario...
...these measures had been proposed even before the rebellion began by the then U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, veteran Career Diplomat John Allison, whose reward had been replacement by Ambassador Jones. Washington then had more hopes and fears-fears that the Communists were about to take over Indonesia lock, stock and barrel; hopes that the rebels would be able to arrest the Communist drift...