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...shovel and sledge hammer, gouging a road out of the wilderness. Even for the peasants who made up three-quarters of the group, the work was exhausting, as temperatures simmered up over 100°. City boys desperately tried to toughen their torn hands with tannin from the bark of cork trees. The work was hard, and nobody got paid-but the whole business was somehow satisfying. The young nation of Morocco was building something for itself...
...Eyes of Texas. The Germans swiftly contained the Anzio beachhead, and Cassino proved to be a cork, bottling up the Allies for four months, until the pressure built up by 16 divisions, 1,600 artillery pieces, 2,000 tanks and 3,000 aircraft burst it asunder. Soldiers by the thousands died trying to scale the 1,700 feet of Monte Cassino. Men of the 36th (Texas) Division splashed through flooded meadows thickly sown with mines, suffered such losses attempting to cross the Rapido River that their morale went to pieces (they demanded a congressional inquiry of their leaders). Gurkhas coming...
...swamped with tariff-free industrial imports, cheaper and better than comparable products of their own; if they stay out, French and Italian farmers and merchants, operating behind the Common Market customs wall, may take away the European markets for such Spanish and Portuguese products as citrus fruits, cork, wine, sardines and pyrite...
...Last Frontier. In New Brunswick, N.J.. Patrolman James Gray, spotting a new fire hydrant on his beat, investigated, found that the nearest resident was keeping the parking space in front of his house open with a cork imitation...
...wake of the record boom has come a spate of new calypso nightclubs, or old nightclubs in calypso dress, most of them in the East. In upper Manhattan a saloonkeeper from County Cork recently had his ceiling strung with fishnet, his mirrors adorned with palm fronds, and proudly announced the conversion of the back room into the Ekim Calypso Dock. Mid-Manhattan's Le Cupidon closed down when calypso became popular, re-draped itself in hammock and palms and reopened two months ago as a calypso club with a Bahamian trio, two steel drummers. It has since added...