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...Yardlings were topped only in the foil as they registered impressive victories in the saber and epee...
...commander, Major General John W. Guerard, 50, a peacetime lawyer and XXIV Corps South Pacific veteran, upheld the Army viewpoint. He observed that "the day has gone when any lunkhead could have a rifle shoved in his hands and some officer would march out in front and wave a saber and say 'Charge...
Emerging from jail last spring, Senaga was greeted by mobs of cheering supporters. He pounded away at such slogans as, "End U.S. rule of the saber," "Restoration of Okinawa to Japan the motherland," "Yankee go home." Last week, despite the best efforts of U.S. authorities, Senaga got himself elected to Okinawa's top elective office-mayor of Naha, the island's biggest city (pop. 170,000). With the two other candidates splitting the pro-U.S. vote, he won with only 40% of the votes...
Prometheus killed with the bones of his victims: the jawbones of prehistoric buffalos, zebras and giraffes, the tusks of hyenas and saber-toothed tigers; stiletto-sharp shattered thighbones. For a small creature, he struck his victims with amazing force. One Makapansgat cave contains the skull of a young man-ape who was killed, Dr. Dart believes, with a bludgeon blow to the chin that shattered the jaw on both sides of the face and knocked out all front teeth...
...British aircraft carrier stood at the ready, and a supply fleet of 130,000 tons waited off Southampton to load equipment for the Middle East. Britain's Anthony Eden seemed confronted with the choice of making good on his assiduous saber-rattling or accepting a humiliating backdown. "Will there be war over Suez?" was the question on British minds last week as the Prime Minister stepped to the dispatch box in the House of Commons and faced an aroused Labor Party, vociferously vowing to pluck him bodily from the brink...