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...Hour. The river rose, a brown, swirling fury in a straitjacket, pushing with enormous force at the restraining walls, threatening to saturate the levees to the point where they would disintegrate. Along the levees guarding Omaha's airfield, the flood pressed by, 15 feet higher than the runways. Some 30,000 people were evacuated from the low-lying residential districts of Council Bluffs. By car and truck the evacuees hauled off what they could, trying to decide between the television set and the washing machine. Householders filled their basements with water to equalize the river pressure and save...
...trucks made straight for the airfield, where a chartered DC-3 stood waiting. Alemán and three henchmen took the U.S. money aboard, leaving the rest to be changed later at Cuban banks. In Miami, he carried the currency to the Du Pont Building headquarters of his $70 million Florida real-estate empire where, an employee has said, "bundles of $1,000 bills were tossed around like wrapped packages of pennies." Later a reporter asked Alemán, "How did you get all that money out of the Treasury?" "It was easy," said Alemán. "In suitcases...
...statement released by the U.N. Command referred to two key issues blocking agreement on truce supervision: Communist insistence on Russia as one of six neutral nations to police a truce, and as Allied demand for a ban on military airfield construction during an armistice. The Reds have asked for a resumption of prisoner exchange talks, which were recessed April...
Minutes later the two women lined their second shots toward the green. Overhead the Corsair's engine coughed and failed. Greenwood rolled the fighter into a vertical bank, hoping to get back to the airfield, or at least to ditch in the St. Johns River. He realized that he could not make it, looked desperately below, headed for the only open spot...
Unlike the Turks, who number few Communists in their midst, the Greeks welcomed Ike with infinite security precautions. Even the high-ranking officers and officials who met him at Athens airfield were kept to assigned positions. Communist leaflets in the city warned: "Out of here, you butcher Eisenhower! Greek children will not be your victims!" But friendly faces far outnumbered the threats. Next day, King Paul gave Eisenhower the Grand Cross of the Order of the Savior, and his deputy, General Gruenther, the Grand Cross of the Order of George...