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...cooperate with the governor and show that it is a stable and permanent political force. For a beginning, they wanted to see the government put some of its new $7,000,000 rehabilitation fund into low-income housing for the poor who now live in tin-roofed packing-crate huts. "Hear, hear," murmured the black men in their patched shirts and faded dungarees. Britain's newest experiment in developing responsible self-rule was already under...
...weather shack for a final briefing. Ceiling was at 1,700 ft. and closing down fast. By 4:30 a.m., they were at their planes (the ground crews had been there an hour and a half earlier). While a^ big, square dummy bomb, about the size of a piano crate, was loaded into the open bomb bay, the plane commander and his copilot, their flashlights poking into the darkness, started checking down a list of 320 different points to be sure the plane was working. Before dawn the job was finished. The five 6-475 shot off around...
...Shirt." But Adlai Stevenson had gone south to do some serious talking. He stood on a yellow Coca-Cola crate behind a tall lectern and told 10,000 Georgians gathered in front of the state capitol that the Republicans are waving "the Red shirt" now just as they waved "the bloody shirt" after the Civil...
...crowds throughout the length of West Germany have come, to hear the man who has variously been called the "Modern Savonarola," the "Red Father," sometimes the "Black Goebbels." They waited before a little open patch in the square in which stood a single microphone and an empty margarine crate...
...Social Swine in You." At five minutes past the hour, a slim, cassocked figure, his waist bound with a black velvet sash, climbed on to the crate. The babble of voices fell silent, as Father Leppich began to speak. He reminded his audience of the Germany of a distant past, of an age of faith, then brought his listeners up sharp with an accusing question: "Yes, we built cathedrals and churches . . . but what did you make of our churches? Barracks, stables, bordellos and nightclubs! Did it make you happier? We poured bells which reminded men daily of the good Lord...