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...okay; in the last two weeks Clark has had time for just one go at canasta with his wife (he won). U.S. generals are not supposed to get fat, lest they look bad in uniform; Clark is lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and rangy. When they are afoot, U.S. generals are expected to stride, not amble; Clark strides. In the European theater, fraternization with troops was a vogue; Clark went swimming and played baseball with soldiers. He takes care always to ask his jeep driver's name, and to shake his hand. Accessibility was another vogue; Clark...
...biggest, but perhaps the most significant of all Canadian enterprises now afoot is the St. Lawrence Seaway, a canal system linking the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to enable all but the biggest deep-sea vessels to sail upstream into North America's industrial heartland. This project has been pressed and attacked on both sides of the border for more than 50 years. Canada has been anxious to build it; all U.S. Presidents from Coolidge to Truman have advocated it (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But the U.S. Congress, hobbled by minority interests (railroads and East Coast shippers...
...Quantrell. Gradually, as he falls for Yankee Sympathizer Scott, Ladd joins the prisoners in a desperate fight against the guerrillas and their Indian allies. Finale: like Heroes Gable and Cooper (see above) Ladd evens things up in a man-to-man tussle-with pistols and knives, on horseback, afoot and prone...
...cows will be killed ... to solve the food problem. The cow is like our mother. Perhaps Congress will next suggest that we should kill our mothers and eat them." The voters howled in disgust at such a wicked thing, not knowing that there are in fact no such plans afoot. "The slavery of the British was a thousand times better than the Freedom of today," the candidate went on. "I swear by the Goddess Chamunda that if elected I will continue to serve the people as my ancestors have done for seven hundred years...
...59th nation to its list, when Spain agreed to let in 20,000 copies a month of Selecciones, the Digest's Spanish-language edition. The magazine hopes for approval soon on its application to the Spanish government to print in Spain and step up circulation. Plans are afoot to start editions in The Netherlands and India...