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...parallel on the east coast, 250 British marines went ashore from a naval task force led by the U.S. heavy cruiser St. Paul. While the ships shielded them with a curtain of fire, the commandos mined 100 yards of the Communists' main east coast rail line, blew a trough 16 ft. deep in the roadbed. After seven hours ashore, the British got back on their ship without a casualty...
Will Power be able to get to the pistol that he knows is lying behind the horse trough? Can he smuggle a note to the unsuspecting drivers of a stagecoach that stops briefly for a meal and a change of horses? Will Hostage Hayward lose her virtue to the leering villain (Jack Elam) who keeps a lecher...
...behavior of pigeons trained to compete in fierce individual enterprise. Pigeons that got this conditioning were put on opposite sides of a small table and urged to knock a ping-pong ball back & forth between them (see cut). When the ball was missed, it fell into a trough and released some grain for the opponent. Pigeons that played this game quickly caught the competitive spirit: until Dr. Skinner decided to restrain them with wire shields, a loser sometimes tried to fly over the table and murder his victorious opponent...
Tiger professors will be encouraged to feed at the Commons trough with the freshman and sophomore pack from now on. Undergraduates at Princeton will be able to invite their instructors to dine free of charge...
Twelve hours after leaving Honolulu he was strapped into a seat in a lost B-iy, staring out of a porthole at the ocean coming closer, and yelling, "Fifteen feet ... ten feet . . . five feet . . ." as its pilot strained to ditch the Bi; in the trough between two long swells. The plane hit like a car running into a stone wall. Water cascaded in. In two minutes, the plane's eight dazed and bleeding men were afloat on tiny rubber rafts under a brazen...