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...statue of the Trojan on the University of Southern California campus a group of male students meets almost every day. One of them occasionally taps the toe of his artificial leg with his cane...
...subcommittee said the industry had done this by putting new, inferior whiskey in blends on the market. For these whiskeys (aged whiskey blended with a high degree of cane, grain or fruit spirits) the industry got high prices because there was no "preexisting date" on which OPA could set a ceiling. And it allowed distillers to keep a "greater amount of aged whiskeys which apparently they hope to . . . market after the war at higher prices...
...Story. This afternoon I went down the hill into the cane fields after the tanks and infantry. Along the west side of a little toy railroad there were dead Japanese every few feet. Some of them were blasted beyond recognition. Under a little farmhouse there were six Jap soldiers, all with their right hands missing, their chests blasted. The old story - suicide by hand grenade...
Three of our companies closed in, firing into the holes and ditches as they walked through the cane fields and woods. "All the fight's gone out of them," said Captain Thomas Wheeler of Kansas City as we walked behind his tanks. "Now it's just like killing rats...
What Now? At 43, Cuba's strong man suddenly had new prestige. Fulgencio Batista was hardly ripe for retirement. He talked of a long trip among Cuba's neighbor countries; perhaps the ex-cane-chopper dreamed of becoming a voice in all Latin America. He was a man to watch. He was sure to keep one eye on the home island, to counter anything smacking of unpractical government. From his balcony last week he told his pueblo that if they ever needed him, he would answer their cries. Dr. Grau, preparing to move into the Presidential Palace next...