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...dawn broke over the small Algerian fishing port of Collo, the grim shape of a French cruiser materialized out of the darkness. Even as French children swarmed down to the beach to cheer, Georges Leygues' 8-in. guns swung shoreward and thundered salvo after salvo into the hills behind the town. Minutes later, French planes strafed the target area. Marines swarmed ashore from the cruiser, trucks carrying Senegalese troops roared up the road from Philippeville and swung up into the hills. It was the first combined air-sea-ground operation of the French in Algeria, aimed at the concentration...
...prove their theory that tooth decay comes more from a soft diet than from starches or sugars (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951), Physician Hans H. Neumann and Dentist Nicholas A. Di Salvo of Columbia University betook themselves to Mexico, Guatemala and darkest Peru. They found whole tribes with virtually no cavities, though they lived on a poor diet heavy with carbohydrates. The researchers made their subjects chomp down on a dynamometer, found their bites much more powerful (166 to 184 Ibs.) than those of soft-dieted Americans (127 Ibs.). Their prescription: eat more hard food...
...Salvo after salvo of blank shots sounded from the huge tanks and tractor-drawn howitzers clanking over ancient Peking's streets. Thousands of marching troops shouted "Liberate Formosa!" Jets and bombers speckled the sky. White "peace" doves fluttered above the heads of half a million workers, who held high huge portraits of Mao Tse-tung, Malenkov, Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Engels...
...Washington Daily News set off a front-page editorial salvo against the current juke-box assault on the ramparts of faith. "Blaring out of the boxes and rasping out of the radio," said the News, "is an unceasing stream of songs about lovers meeting and parting within the sight and sound of mission bells, ladies left sobbing in chapels and strident testimonials to the serenity to be found in the little church in some quaint little old fishing village down Mexico way.* Never have so many done so much whimpering and moaning and screeching in the name of deep...
Fact-Packed Answer. Roberts himself fired back at Justice with a fact-packed salvo against each charge. "We give the subscriber a morning, evening and Sunday edition for one price [40? a week],", said Roberts. "That service was started . . . by [the] founder of the Star [and] has never been challenged until now." Roberts argued that there is no coercion on advertisers and that the paper's ad rate for all editions, even if applied to only one edition, "would still be lower than the average advertising rate of the major newspapers in the country...