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...Suez Canal at a fortified Egyptian rock named Green Island. Within the fort's 25-ft.-high stone walls were radar-controlled antiaircraft batteries, mortars and machine guns manned by 70-odd Egyptian troops; at its tip was a radar tower. It had long been a thorn to the Israelis, and late one night 40 or more Israeli naval commandos set off on the two-mile trip to the island. Silently, they scaled the walls, killed the sentries and then, after a brief but vicious firefight that cost at least six Israeli dead, blew up all the artillery...
...Festival just for this role, fits to perfection Shaw's prescription of "a small, thin, ridiculous little man." He has no trouble convincing us of his great love of animals, and is wholly at home in Shaw's amusing baby-talk (such as "Did um get an awful thorn into um's tootsums wootsums?"). The extraction of the thorn from the Lion's paw is nicely handled, after which Androcles and the Lion perform a waltz that starts in the minor and shifts to major as they dance off into the distance and leave the henpecking Megaera behind. I think...
SAMUEL H. Beer, professor of Government and Democratic Committeeman for Ward 8, believes that state legislators usually do not like to deal with ward committees. "A state politician wants to have ward committees in his hip pocket; otherwise they can be a thorn in his side," Beer said, noting that ward committee-members often oppose legislation in the primaries...
...hear) took over the mayoralty of Dijon (pop. 96,000) in 1940, when city officials fled the Germans, and led the local resistance throughout the war. Dijon's citizens voted him in as mayor in every election from 1945 to the present, and though he often proved a thorn both to his church (he once called Khrushchev "a crusader for peace") and government (De Gaulle, he said, was a "big boob"), he never failed to delight his followers-as when he squelched a heckler on the existence of God with: "You've never seen my derriere, have...
United in Hatred. South Korea's second line of defense-and the real thorn in North Korea's side-is the continued strength of its economy. Despite the disruptions of war, the South Korean economy continues to grow at a rate of 12% a year. Foreign investors are flocking into Seoul and the countryside, including Motorola (electronic circuits), IBM (computers), and Fairchild Camera (transistors). Though U.S. aid still braces the Korean budget, the aid figure has dropped from $110 million in 1966 to $70 million last year. Within the next two or three years, South Korea expects...