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...content with destroying the barricades and breaking the Tunisian blockade, the French next day launched a full-scale attack on the town of Bizerte itself, which commands the narrow entrance to the Bay of Bizerte (see map). Rocket-carrying planes swiftly blasted out the Tunisians' few artillery posts. Tanks and tough paratroopers pushed into the city from the south; marines swarmed ashore on the harbor side in landing craft, as three French cruisers lurked offshore. The Tunisians fought raggedly through the streets, but they were no match for French striking power. Bizerte was quickly in French hands...
...former vice president was obviously not at all anxious to ignore his private road map, which does not include Sacramento as a way stop on the route back to Washington. For one thing, Democrats are almost certain to control the next California legislature; they would make life unbearable for any Republican Governor, and particularly for Nixon. Another reason: campaigning in California and serving as Governor would restrict Nixon to his home state when he would want to be out touring...
...term Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner has jammed the mechanism by breaking openly with the Democratic bosses (TIME, June 30) and choosing his own running mates for a third-term attempt in November. Ever since, the city's political future has been as confusing as a subway map...
Russia and Red China have little in common save Communism, and even on that they disagree. The nature and the size of the split can shape the course of the cold war, and the West's strategists have studied every scrap of evidence to help map its dimensions. The split was papered over at the meeting of all the world's 81 Communist parties in Moscow last winter. Last week there was new evidence that the quarrel between the partners is becoming increasingly acrimonious. Writing in the London Sunday Times, Polish-born Kremlinologist Isaac Deutscher revealed an astonishingly...
...lashing bedrolls and tents. Flashlights and spare batteries should be packed, as well as a small kerosene lamp, books, matches in a waterproof case, first-aid kit, candle, knife, hatchet, bucket, small trench shovel, mosquito repellent, aluminum foil, toilet paper, foul-weather clothing, cameras, binoculars, a good topographical map (available at park and forest headquarters), handy nature guides and a Thermos...