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...first ominous rumblings were heard in Peking at 3:40 on a rainy, windblown morning ]last week. It sounded, said a Japanese resident, "as though a UFO had whooshed its way over the city...
Atop a sere, windblown hill rising 2,000 ft. above the central Sinai desert, 170 American men and women this week assume the task of securing the fragile peace between Egypt and Israel. Dressed in bright orange uniforms-so that they can be easily seen against the sun-baked sand-the members of the State Department's Sinai Field Mission are operating monitoring stations in the Giddi and Mitla passes, scene of three wars in the past 20 years. The puny American presence could scarcely halt an armored column intent on starting a fourth war. Rather, since Egypt...
Quarterback Jim Stoeckel, split end Pat McInally, defensive end Mitch Berger and the Crimson's adjuster George Newhouse were all picked to Princeton's All-Opponent Football Team. McInally caught eight windblown Stockel passes for 79 yard in the Princeton contest, while the defense led by Berger and Newhouse shut the Tigers off in the final period to give Harvard...
...wrinkled old Tuareg looked out across the windblown desert surrounding the squalid refugee camp near the Niger capital of Niamey, where he and 5,000 others now live. "This year," he said it was the animals that died. Most of us managed to survive. But next year, unless Allah is most merciful, it will be our turn...
Heavy with cargo, low-riding oil tankers bucked through the windblown South Atlantic last week on their way from the Persian Gulf to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, New York and other U.S. ports. In a week or so, they will tie up at their destinations-and the U.S. will enter a sterner, more painful new era of energy shortages. These huge ships were the last to be loaded before the Arab states blocked all petroleum shipments to the U.S. in retaliation for American support of Israel. The Arab move is expected to diminish by a disruptive 18% or more the minimum...