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...riot in Formosa's history. Unlike many anti-U.S. outbreaks in the Far East and elsewhere in recent years, last week's riot was no carefully organized manifestation of left or right, but a spontaneous, flash-fire uprising. And because it was misunderstood, and its consequences unforeseen, it very nearly became something worse...
WASHINGTON, May 14--An unforeseen rush of men to enlist in the Army Reserves for six months active duty, has forced the Army today to suspend any further enlistments in this program until July...
Chew-Chew. In Fresno, Calif., when the San Joaquin Daylight train arrived 18 minutes late, Southern Pacific officials blamed "unforeseen operating difficulties" for the delay-Engineer William J. Franey had sneezed, blown his upper dentures out the cab window, stopped the train to hunt for them...
Open Windows. Only a few points remain to be hammered out to make the Common Market a reality, and, barring "unforeseen catastrophes," its sponsors hope to have the Common Market treaty ready for signing by the end of February. Last week French Premier Guy Mollet, who was cagily insisting that he must have parliamentary approval "in principle"before he signed the treaty, launched a full-fledged debate on the plan in France's National Assembly...
...narration of the film, the second in a Project 20 trilogy (first: The Great War; third: The Story of the Thirties), is redolent with the decade's slangy idiom, from "Let's get blotto" to "Nerts." Better yet, not only for its authentic ring but for its unforeseen link to the unsummonable past, the idiom is spoken in the friendly, adenoidal singsong of Comedian Fred Allen, who died last March soon after finishing...