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...dirt-pushing bulldozer. Three of them flung themselves into the path of the steel treads. Klunder lay down behind the machine. The driver, John White, 33, stopped when he saw the three in front. He looked around, but did not see Klunder. Slowly, he began backing his six-ton bulldozer. When he finally stopped, the dead body of Bruce Klunder lay in the tread-marked...
Concord Squadron. Though Zanzibar is still a member of the British Commonwealth, the council has turned unabashedly to the Communists for economic aid. Babu has lined up a $500,000 cash handout from Red China, with promises of Chinese credits to come. In exchange for 500 tons of cloves (world market price: around $800 a ton), the Soviet freighter Faisabad recently delivered 50 trucks to Zanzibar. After dark, the Faisabad unloaded a more dangerous Soviet cargo: small arms and artillery, complete with a band of "technicians," to train Zanzibar's new Youth Army in their...
...wheedled out of tears with jokes and C rations. Families fortunate enough to have heat, water or electricity opened their doors to the homeless. In the streets of the towns, volunteer workers joined military personnel in the unending job of picking up the pieces. In Seward a 30-ton fishing boat lay incongruously in a patch of woods several hundred yards from the shore. In the dockside railroad yard, a big switching engine rested on its side 200 ft. from the tracks...
...move. The Louvre's Venus de Milo, weighing more than a ton, arrived in Japan to grace the summer Olympics, having lost four chips of plaster and marble added during a 19th century restoration (they were glued back on). To enhance the New York World's Fair, Michelangelo's 6,700-lb. Pietà was eased off its pedestal in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, slid down planks lubricated with laundry soap and packed in a double box with a foam plastic that cushions the marble and supports it by filling every cranny...
...week, nearly 20 years after its founding as a refugee runner, ZIM added to its fleet a handsome new flagship. From St. Nazaire's Chantiers de 1'Atlantique, famed builder of the Normandie and France, it took delivery of the Shalom (Peace), a $20 million, 24,500-ton luxury liner that will make her maiden voyage to New York next month...