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...Guards harassed an Italian trade official at a street "trial" after the port of Genoa had refused to allow a Chi nese freighter to unload until it lowered political banners extolling Mao. - Thousands of Maoists brawled among themselves, ignoring the theme of the rally for which they had gathered-"to end demonstrations and clashes...
...deter the enemy from attacking in the first place. The present U.S. arsenal should indeed give any aggressor pause. It consists of the 1,000 Minuteman Is and IIs, 54 Titan IIs and 656 Polaris missiles, as well as 555 B-52 and 80 B58 intercontinental bombers armed to unload nuclear bombs on any enemy in the world-although some 60 B-52s are now based on Guam and in Thailand to fly conventional missions over North Viet...
...directed in On the Town: "The guy just never heard of exhaustion." But he has heard about charm, and he can crack the whip without stinging the ego. When he teamed up with Jackie Gleason to film Gigot in 1961, the trade waited expectantly for the Great One to unload his celebrated wrath on the demanding director. Instead, Kelly had Gleason puffing up and down a flight of stairs like a trained St. Bernard and Jackie begrudgingly tacked a reminder on his dressing-room door: GENE KELLY is RIGHT...
Property for Sale. Thus it is not surprising that the railroads want to unload. The market for buyers seems to be limited to interests outside the transportation field; a recent bid by Greyhound for a 20% share of REA was knocked down in the courts. The buyer will get 14,000 pieces of automotive equipment, 11,000 trailers, and 7,000 terminals in 50 states. With a new, more flexible approach to the use of those assets, and without the stringent regulations that guide it as a rail holding REA might very well be an interesting property...
...mullahs proclaimed American and British products unholy. Libyan mobs destroyed liquor stores as symbols of Anglo-American "imperialism," and King Idris demanded that the U.S. abandon its Wheelus Air Force Base. Egypt and Syria closed their ports to U.S. and British ships; Sudanese and Iraqi dock workers refused to unload them...