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Quemoy still has its few moments of actual warfare, though nothing like the 175,000 rounds of shells that came pounding in during one two-day period in 1960. According to a Nationalist officer, artillery duels are confined to odd-numbered nights, and they usually involve only about 40 or 50 symbolic rounds, which explode in sparsely populated areas and cause little damage. On one such night in Quemoy City, however, the showing of a propaganda film on the island's impregnable defenses was interrupted by three artillery shells that went off right outside the building. Quemoy...
Glassboro was chosen as the site of their two-day talks for reasons of protocol-it was equidistant from Washington and New York City. *One small but possibly telling portent occurred last week. The trade-union newspaper Trud reported that a much ballyhooed Siberian power generator supposedly put in service five years ago had in fact burned out at the factory and never been installed. Western economic analysts could not recall a case of similar candor...
...will be divided into two camps, on opposite sides of Africa. The smaller group will set up its instruments in Mauritania, where the hot dry air should offer good viewing. But because Mauritania has experienced a severe drought for the past few years, sudden winds could blow up obscuring clouds of dust particles. Scientists are hedging their bets by establishing another camp on Kenya's Lake Rudolf, near Loiyengalani. Even more primitive than some of the sites in Mauritania, the village is accessible only by small planes or by Land Rovers on a two-day trip over rutted bush...
...data were provided by a two-day screening for hypertension carried out in New Orleans to identify victims of this hidden threat, which, when detected, can be easily controlled by drugs. After doctors, nurses and trained volunteers administered blood-pressure tests to all takers at 43 centers throughout the area, doctors compiled the startling results. Of the 30,132 people who showed up for the tests, at least 30% proved to have high blood pressure...
...wide range of investigative and sociological studies on the black woman as a professional and a role-model were presented at the two-day symposium...