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...South China Sea, was the machine-gun fire of Communist T-54 tanks. Then, out of a deep night along the Israel-Egypt border, there sprang forth two spearheads of a regular Israeli army advance, lunging 75 miles into Egyptian territory in the general direction of the Suez Canal. Unknown was whether Israel was launching an unusually deep retaliatory raid, or whether this was the beginning of the painful tidings that the President and Secretary of State had long feared and had long striven to prevent: an Israeli preventive...
They are most encouraged by his last two major speeches, speeches in which he leveled his fire upon President Eisenhower, and had the crowd so completely with him that it booed the President, a hitherto unknown reaction...
Perhaps the safest course, however, was taken by the bookie who rated the teams even. For if the oddsmakers' dilemma means anything, it is that the outcome of today's game rests in several unknown quantities...
...second unknown which is baffling the oddsmakers concerns Harvard's ability to cope with Dartmouth's passing attack and trick plays. Although the Indians have lost ace passer Bill Beagle through graduation, Blackman seems to have come up with an adequate replacement in senior Mike Brown. In his first four games, Brown has hit on 20 out of 40 pass attempts for a total of 278 yards. This percentage, coupled with the Crimson's weakness on pass defense, could make the difference in the game...
...decision was made to open the passage by capturing the shore. On the morning of April 25, 1915, 60,000 Allied troops headed toward the Dardanelles peninsula in the first great amphibious land assault of modern times. In an age when armored landing craft were practically unknown, British, French and Anzacs went ashore in a flotilla of paddle steamers, trawlers, yachts and river tugs. Scarcely a naval gun boomed to soften up the Turkish beaches before them: the warships at Gallipoli were too busy transporting the troops. The result was carnage. At Cape Helles the Turks began "firing from...