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...Germans are set to wipe out the null British garrison on the Greek isle of Kheros. The Germans control the air by day and the British the sea by night. Unless the British can silence a German battery on the neighboring isle of Navarone, nothing can save the Kheros garrison. Five men are selected to sail a caique under the cliffs by night, scale them, and blow up the German guns. Largely because the five are led by a man so tough and tight-lipped that he would make Bulldog Drummond seem like a pacifist balletomane, they pull off this...
...Falls, Wis. (pop. 1,500), a village handyman, had been helping to take a snow plow off a truck in zero weather just after lunch when he collapsed, half in and half out of the cab of his truck. A fellow worker had found him, wrestled the 200-lb. null onto the seat of the truck and drove it a quarter-mile to St. Croix Memorial Valley Hospital...
...trials by the Soviets (who blamed him for 1938-39 Manchurian border skirmishes), Shigemitsu got a seven-year sentence, served 4½ years, bounced back into politics in 1950, last year negotiated a peace treaty with Russia, a few months later took the bows when Japan was made the null 80th member...
...Dutton; $4.95), sweeps through the South Pacific with all guns firing as Pilot Sakai and his squadron of Zeros effortlessly shoot U.S. planes out of the sky. In five seconds over Port Moresby, four Airacobras are sent spinning into the sea. Another time the Japs down six of seven null without the loss of a Zero...
...industry was faced with new demands from the feast-and-famine shipbuilding industry, which has enjoyed its biggest year since the Korean war with 1,567,661 tons of new shipping on order or on the ways. The Suez crisis, plus the trend to the null supertankers, flooded U.S. yards with orders -even if no one was sure when the steel would arrive. In 1956 steelmen spent $1.2 billion to expand. At year's end they planned to spend $2 billion more if the Government would allow them fast tax write-offs on the new plants...