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...down to Manila for some radio gear. Once in the capital, Jones got his information to Secretary Magsaysay, who immediately sent 6,000 soldiers converging on Mt. Dortz from four sides. They routed the outnumbered Reds, destroyed 57 buildings, killed more than too, including Peregrino and Rebecca Taruc, cousin and sister of Huk Army Commander Luis Taruc. Exulted Magsaysay last week: "We have just disrupted the biggest and most active Huk regional command in central Luzon and seized what was probably the Huk army's most strategically located stronghold...
...salad days of war, meek, myopic Prince Hironobu Fushimi, distant cousin of Emperor Hirohito, was a middle-aged captain in the Imperial navy. His country's defeat left him a civilian, and like other kinsmen of the Imperial family, without title. His Tokyo mansion had been bombed; he built himself a modest cottage on the site of the ruins. There he and his wife, the former Princess Hanako Kanin, settled down as plain Mr. & Mrs. Hironobu Kacho...
...modern methods. All through the summer mosquito hunting season he and his men spray DDT into swamps, tidal flats, ponds and irrigation ditches. But Duclus says he owes much of his success to the voracious appetite of a small (2-in.) fish called Gambusia affinis. This olive-colored, viviparous cousin of the guppy thrives in the stagnant waters where mosquitoes breed, lives to a ripe old age of two or three years, and never loses its taste for wriggling insect larvae. In its prime, Gambusia affinis can polish off 100 incipient mosquitoes...
Last January Claire headed for Italy. On her own savings from jobs, she had left home without a word. For six months she and Negrini lived together in a shabby one-room apartment near Milan which he shares with two elderly aunts, a cousin and several cats. But Claire found Italy "beautiful and peaceful" - until the American consulate demanded her passport to return her to the U.S. as a minor living abroad without her parents' consent. Claire refused, said she would renounce her American citizenship first, and got an Italian soggiorno (residence permit), which expired this week...
...playback repertory ran to 463,635 recorded hours. Ellen's late father, an audio-research addict, had fed Mikki everything: Bach, stock-market predictions, forgotten pre-Edison records. "Some jukebox!" said her younger brother Charles, admiringly. But Mikki was more than a giant jukebox; he was first cousin to all the electronic brain machines whose touted destiny is to make modern man obsolete...