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...strangest victim of the revolt was the Algerian Communist Party. Like the French Communist Party last spring (TIME, Feb. 12), the Algerian Communists suddenly abandoned their traditional anti-imperialism, took a stand against the natives (presumably, Communists want to keep intact the French Empire which they may one day rule). Furious Algerian nationalists retaliated by killing one local Communist Party secretary and beating up other Communists...
...survived (portage, grand rapids, mile, prairie), but by the time a few generations of American settlers had gone to work on them, L'eau Froide (cold water) was Low Freight, Pomme de Terre was Pumly Tar, and the dignified river L'Ours (bear) was simply Louse Creek. Strangest of all, perhaps, was the fate of a settlement named after the Dutchman De Geoijen. In short order it became De Queen, and the local news paper De Queen...
With the announcement that it was offering its 509,550 common shares of National Bank of Detroit stock for sale to the public, General Motors Corp. last week wrote an end to one of the strangest careers in banking history...
...dusty, tired men move forward a few hundred yards through sickening ruins. But ahead the wall of Intramuros still stands. . . . This is perhaps the strangest battle of modern times...
Nicholas Nagurney, a fireman, of the Hull, aboard another raft, had the strangest delusions and a unique experience. "Glenn Wilkerson told me to see how deep the water was. Then a shark bit me. I don't remember feeling it when he bit me, but he was about eight feet long...