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Since his student days at the University of Havana, Senator Eduardo Chibás, 43, has been proclaiming and demonstrating his willingness to shed his blood for a cause or for his honor. He has fought numerous duels, including a saber engagement in 1947 with Carlos Prio Socarras, now President of Cuba. When someone fired a bullet at Chibás while he was making an open-air speech back in 1947, he bared his chest and cried, "Go ahead and shoot! The Ortodoxos need a martyr...
Coolness & Conciliation? London, meanwhile, had done a little more saber-rattling, announced that a crack British parachute brigade would be sent from England to Cyprus, 900 miles from Abadan. At the same time, London assured Washington-which believes that British military intervention in Iran would be a disastrous mistake-that troops would not be sent in unless it became necessary to protect British lives and property. The British also announced that they would refer the nationalization dispute to the World Court at The Hague...
Captain Win Overholser and George McNair each won two in the epee, an event in which Bob Ditmar of Wesleyan swept his bouts. Sophomore Harry Ziel went undefeated in the saber for Rene Peroy's team. The Crimson won the foil, seven to two, the saber, five to four, and lost the epee, four to five...
...that decision will be made in Moscow, not in Washington. And since the U.S. insists on minimizing Asia, why not (Stalin may reason) pick off the rest of Asia, starting with Korea, continuing with Indo-China, gobbling up Malaya and Indonesia, meanwhile rattling the saber in Europe to distract American effort...
...Roof Fell In. Before the 7th Regiment had a chance to wet a saber, the roof fell in. Throughout northwest Korea the Communists started unexpectedly strong counterattacks supported by tanks, artillery and mortars. One North Korean force cut the main supply road to Chosan, isolated the R.O.K. 7th Regiment on the Yalu. Three more Red battalions surrounded part of the 6th Division near Onjong, 50 miles south of Chosan. At Unsan, 70 miles north of Pyongyang, a regiment of the R.O.K. ist Division was enveloped by 7,000 Communists. Thirty miles west of Unsan, U.N. air strikes failed to break...