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...British embassy announced that 1,400 nationals, including half its staff's dependents, had been evacuated from Egypt "because of the present grave situation." The Orient Line shifted three liners from the Suez route to sail the long way around the Cape of Good Hope. In a saber-rattling speech that old Socialist, France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, compared Nasser to Hitler and demanded "a very clear will to use force...
Stalin commissioned and improved upon films, books and pictures glorifying himself. "Stalin loved to see the film The Unforgettable Year of 1919, in which he was shown on the steps of an armored train and where he was practically vanquishing the foe with his own saber. Let Kliment Voroshilov, our dear friend, find the necessary courage and write the truth about Stalin; after all, he knows how Stalin had fought...
...hammer home the point, no fewer than 20 new factories are to be officially opened. Heading the list is a $2,000,000 General Electric plant to make circuit breakers; other factories will produce such goods as coils, rubber buckets, screen wire, photolithography, saber saws, frozen foods, billfolds, brassières. The openings will bring to 400 the total of plants drawn to Puerto Rico by its famed Operation Bootstrap...
...Crossing blades in The Bronx with the best swordsmen in the East, the Naval Academy's foil, epee and saber wielders won the three-weapon title at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association championships by the thin edge of a single saber bout...
...February. High-spiritedly, the teen-agers marched off toward the Ministry of Education. Almost any mild measure would presumably have stopped them, but the police-minded government of President Marcos Pérez Jimenez sent well-armed cops. Angered and insulted by student insolence, the police attacked with sabers and (according to some accounts) fired on the shrieking school kids. An army officer arrived in time to see his daughter struck by a cop with the flat of a saber; he shot the policeman on the spot...