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...artillery, mortars and strafing planes. They could reply only with rifles, one mortar with 20 rounds, and a bazooka with four rounds-handled by a man who had never fired a bazooka before in his life. The fight for El Argoup lasted a week and ended in a rout that cost the Egyptians three tanks, seven armored cars and 160 dead. De Carvalho asked a haggard sheik if his men suffered from battle fatigue. The sheik frowned: "We suffer from many diseases in Yemen, but battle fatigue-what is that...
...stunning upsets this weekend. Cornell nipped Penn 78 to 76 Friday and then toppled Princeton 73 to 67 the next night. Friday's game left Penn, Yale, and Harvard tied for first place with 3-1 records; on Saturday Penn regained the top spot with an 86-66 rout of Columbia...
...future boom. The angry debate over steel brought home to the public the fact that inflation had been all but stopped for two years. When this realization sunk in. what had begun as an orderly decline in an overpriced stock market abruptly turned into a rout...
...exporter of vegetables. Irrigation experts are siphoning water from the Yarmuk River and tapping long-unused Roman cisterns to make 75,000 acres of desert bloom. One project had unexpected results: 5,000 hungry camels found the new grass so tasty that the army had to be used to rout them out. "With any luck," says one economist, "Jordan will become a selfsupporting, viable nation." Fingers crossed, U.S. observers figure another decade should...
...other hand, of course, a team that gets off 57 shots in a game as the Crimson did against Northeastern could easily throw a goalie into a state of acute shell-shock and reduce the game to a rout...