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...move in and take over. Soon after he became president, he stepped in to straighten out the Allison Division (aircraft engines), which was in trouble because it had been afraid to invest money in research and development unless armed forces orders were assured. By contrast, Competitor Pratt & Whitney had sunk millions in engine development...
Boston's Bruins sunk themselves further into the N.H.L. collar last night as they bowed to the Chicago Black Hawks...
Almost immediately, toothy Premier Dong found that he had chewed off a peck of troubles. When, last fortnight, he held his first Cabinet meeting (absent: President Ho), Hanoi's streets were still littered with the debris of Typhoon Kate, which had sunk junks and barges, torn up railroad tracks, burst dikes and spun off thatched roofs as though they were flying saucers. Although Hanoi is swarming with Russians, East Germans, Poles and Chinese (a Canadian truce-commission officer observed that "there are more white faces than during the French administration"), the Communist big brothers seem to regard North Viet...
...illy comport with the pure celestial virtues and amiable qualifications of that lovely fair one." At night on the plains, the ground around them shook from the stomping herds of buffalo, and once a buffalo bull bellowed into their camp and trampled two guns. The party was almost sunk by rapids and tormented by mosquitoes, cloudbursts and rattlesnakes. Still in present-day Montana, they portaged around the Great Falls, studied animals that were strange to them: prairie dogs, antelope, bighorn sheep. Then they passed the Gates of the Mountains (near Helena, Mont.) and the age-old Indian war ground...
...antelope who pass disdainfully a few feet from where he lies, knowing that it is the queen who brings home most of the bacon. In fact, the only demonstrable hardship in a lion's life is the rainy season, during which the tropic plains sometimes lie sunk under six inches of water. The lion looks terribly unhappy about it, but he lies down anyway...