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...Imam had ruled for scarcely eight days when, one night last week, he found himself a prisoner in his own mud-brick palace in the capital city of San'a. The Imam tried to shoot his way out but Sallal blasted the palace with artillery, and luckless Badr died in the ruins. At midnight, Radio San'a announced the fall of the monarchy and "the establishment of the Yemen Arab Republic...
...through fields and thickets, trying to avoid being spotted by R.A.F. helicopters cruising low over Robins Nest Mountain and the scrub pines of Flower Hill. Most were routed from their hiding places by skirmish lines of British troops, and sent to Fanling camp. There, after a nourishing meal, the luckless refugees were herded onto trains or trucks for the short ride back to Red China. Along the way, fellow Chinese tossed food packages into the refugees' outstretched hands. Most of them saved some of the food against the day when they would try again to get into Hong Kong...
...York City snowed him under by 402,980 votes last Nov. 7, but San Juan., P.R., proved fair and warm for New York State Attorney General Louis J. Leflcowitz, 57. At its annual convention there, the National Association of Attorneys General elected as its president the G.O.P.'s luckless 1961 mayoral candidate...
...cost to Hong Kong has been staggering. Since 1949, school population has leaped from 143,000 to 658,000. medical expenditures from $4.6 million to $26.3 million. Despite a vast housing program, thousands of luckless refugees still sleep in doorways and on rooftops, or huddle in shantytowns clinging to the sides of hills...
...make matters worse, the Auerhahn sings mostly at night, only when it feels the urge, and never for more than half an hour at a time. Many a luckless sportsman has shivered through an entire night in the dank, cold forest, only to go home at dawn-sniffling and hungry-without once having heard the pop of a cork. Since 1954, only 268 Auerhahne have been shot in the West German woods. Of these, 90 were shot down by U.S. armed forces personnel, who have taken to the sport with so much enthusiasm that they have already organized 100 hunting...