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Across the Pacific Ocean, over the Rocky Mountains and into Denver, Colo, this week flew Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. At Denver's Lowry Air Force Base he emerged tousle-haired from a U.S. Air Force Constellation and hurried off in a rain squall to the President's summer office on the base. There Dulles reported first to the President and then to the National Security Council on his 16,000-mile diplomatic journey...
...Manhattan, Heavyweight Contender Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson swirled into the center of the ring and ran head on into a squall of right hooks thrown by Cuban Heavyweight Champion Nino Valdes. Knocked down twice in the second round and floored a third time by some catch-as-catch-can wrestling, Hurricane lost...
...Newport-to-Annapolis ocean race, the 73-ft. yawl Bolero, captained by John Nicholas Brown, commodore of the New York Yacht Club, and with famed Yachtsman Cornelius ("Corny") Shields serving as first mate, raced and outran a squall, finished her 466-mile run in a near calm to win in an elapsed...
When the first British reinforcements arrived in beleaguered Pusan, many Americans thought so. Their confidence waned as the U.S. and its allies fell out over the conduct of the war. The first squall arose when Douglas MacArthur wanted U.N. authority for crossing the 38th parallel in pursuit of the North Koreans. In studiedly vague language, the General Assembly authorized the Eighth Army to "insure stability in Korea," and bring about "a unified, independent and democratic government." The vote was 47-5 (the Russian bloc), but India and six other Asian and Arab nations parted company with the U.S., because...
...southern tip of the squall line, Cleveland shuddered under hailstones big as golf balls as a twister rode in from the airport. The twister dragged its tail across the suburbs, skipped to the industrial "Flats," and wrecked a couple of downtown commercial buildings before it disappeared over the lake. In 29 minutes it curved over 12½ miles, opened a half-mile-wide swath, killed eight, injured 300, wrecked 1,871 houses and did some $20 million of damage...