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...last week, boys in the street sell chocolate and jelly. When the bombers come, the people take to the caves and catacombs used by the Knights of St. John long ago; these shelters have been enlarged so that every civilian in Malta can go underground. The soft limestone and coral rock is easy to excavate, but when exposed to air it hardens like concrete. Geologically, Malta is a sponge. Militarily, it is a rock...
...learning to share her Eden with snakes. She tried to overcome her fear by playing with a pretty red, black and yellow snake in the garden. She ran it through her fingers like a necklace. She was more terrified than ever when she discovered that it was a deadly coral snake. At last she conquered her fear by learning to pick up live rattlers with a forked tube. Since Cross Creek was written, the man who showed her how has since been bitten twice by moccasins, once by a rattler. Mrs. Rawlings' herpetological heroism reached the point where...
...next 45 minutes were the worst I ever experienced. . . . Fifty-five men and one plucky girl piled, exhausted and soaked, with their legs bleeding from coral cuts, into a launch licensed to carry 15. Forty men gave up the struggle and turned back to the island to wait. ... If the night on the island was miserable, the one aboard the launch was indescribable. Waves rolled over the deck where we were sprawled wet and shivering, but we were still hoping we'd make Sumatra before dawn brought Japanese bombers...
Eight-hundred miles south and west, other Japanese raiders shelled Johnston Island, an eight-mile-long coral reef and subsidiary base for naval aircraft. Said Imperial headquarters: destruction of "most important defense facilities." Said the U.S. Navy: a weak attack, no casualties...
...desolate sandy specks in the midst of a watery nowhere. A Clipper stop on Pan Am's famed trans-Pacific run, it boasted a small hostel, an imposing concrete air-raid shelter recently built, a catch basin for rain water, a hydroponic tank for growing vegetables, which the coral sand refuses to nurture...