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Hand Signals. As the second and third Syrian positions were literally overrun in the same headlong fashion, Colonel Arie,*the column commander, was wounded. Major Rafi, who leaped into the turret of the lead tank to take his place, was killed instantly as the column blasted its way through the final...
View from the Turret. The blizzard's main force battered a 100-mi.-wide strip extending from northeast Missouri to southern Michigan, inconveniencing millions. After widespread freezing rain, ice-laden power lines snapped, leaving dozens of entire communities-and 4,000 families in Kansas City-without electricity. In Michigan, Governor George Romney donned a Cossack hat, commandeered a lumbering National Guard half-track and, grandly manning the turret, cried out encouragement to the citizenry as he rode to the state capitol. In Gary, winds off Lake Michigan piled up 15-ft. snowdrifts, and Indi- ana's Governor Roger...
...West Germany in history's first two-nation collaboration on a major military weapon. It will be too heavy to swim, but will nonetheless be able to crawl under wa ter, like a crawdad, on river, lake or ocean beds, traverse steeply slanting terrain and raise its turret to peer over hills and walls. It is air-conditioned and insulated against atomic radiation. The first experimental model is scheduled for completion next summer...
...Playroom is a morbid, two-hour, sadistic drip-tease. The drips are a revolting quintet of teen-age boys and girls who call themselves "the Filthy Five," and hang out in a surrealistically appointed turret room of a quaint Manhattan apartment building. These kids are not remotely real, but they have most of the commercially fashionable maladjustments from homosexuality to reefer-dragging, though Playwright Mary Drayton permits one youngster to be merely obese...
...Hawaii's outer-island hotels [July 23] will easily draw the intelligent tourist away from the cellblock gun-turret piles that corrupt Waikiki and blotch the lovely profiles of Diamond Head and Punchbowl. A few of our developers care for Honolulu, once one of the world's beautiful cities; the rest are feverishly changing it into the architectural junkyard of the Pacific...