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...soften up the city, B-26 fighter-bombers, piloted by anti-Castro Cubans supplied by Washington, relentlessly blasted strategic targets. Then a force of 1,000 Congolese army troops launched a two-prong invasion which caught the rebels by surprise. Coming from the north, one column overran the port area and airfield. The other column skirted the city, attacked from the south. When the rebels tried to counterattack, a government armored car's machine gun was waiting for them. The battle raged on for eight hours before the rebels finally fled, but it was one-sided...
Still another prong would consist of measures to divert land from production of crops now in oversupply-a temporary five-year "soil bank," plus a special plan for transforming wheatlands on the arid western fringes of the wheat belt into grasslands for grazing cattle...
Dark Threat. Last week came the second prong of RCA's offensive-an attempt to involve Ford in FCC hearings on license renewal for WRCV. RCA's Philadelphia TV station. Philco. which owned the station until 1953 and wants to get it back, has long tried to convince FCC that because RCA has been involved in a number of antitrust actions, it is not qualified to hold "a grant which must be exercised in the public interest." In rebuttal, RCA last week filed a counterreport reminding FCC that if Philco got the station it would be tantamount...
...hinges, Dr. Flatt cuts back the ends of both bones that form the defective ball-and-socket joint. He also removes any remaining parts of the synovial membrane, which encloses the natural joint, because this is an important site of arthritic disease. He inserts the double-prong ends of the two hinge parts into the squishy centers (marrow canals) of the cut-off bones. Muscles and tendons must then be slipped into their proper places with exquisite care...
...first, Dr. Flatt used a hinge with a single prong at each end, but found that a finger might rotate around this. So he switched to double prongs which cannot twist. Though originally designed for middle joints, the hinges are proving most useful as replacements for knuckles...