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...Mamie." But there was also Panama in 1922. Mamie had just lost her three-year-old son, "Little Icky," and was expecting her second. She found herself living amid the damp, stifling tropical heat in an ancient and stilt-supported house. There were bats in the rafters, and tarantulas crept out of cracks in the floor. She learned to know a lot of worlds: Washington, the Army schools, the rainy Northwest. In 1936, when Ike served as assistant to General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines, Mamie found herself living amid rococo splendor in Manila. The next hop took...
...evening last week a small force of ROKs turned their parkas inside out, so that the white linings would help to camouflage them against the snow. Then they crept down the slope, flanked by diversionary groups on the left and right. The raiders surprised and killed three tunnel guards, then waited while the enemy packed the 8-by-5-ft. passage with troops. ROK engineers planted 200 Ibs. of TNT at the tunnel's mouth; five minutes later, the explosive went up with a shattering roar. Forty-four Reds perished; the tunnel was ruined...
...With half a tongue in cheek, Wilder likes to say that the first paragraph of The Woman of Andros is "one of the most beautiful in the English language." The paragraph begins: "The earth sighed as it turned in its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides. The caves that surround the Neapolitan...
...left wing. With 3,000,000 francs voted by the Seine provincial council, Poisson was at work numbering each stone before dismantling the facade and rebuilding it as a historic monument in the park at Sceaux. Still missing: Louis' table volante. Reported Curator Poisson sadly: "I even crept down into the sewers on all fours, but we found nothing...
...they had been told that its activity was dying down. This report, they found, was premature. A great hole had opened in the side of the cone 150 ft. above sea level, and a tumbling flood of orange-hot lava blocks was building a hissing delta. The two men crept as near as they dared and estimated the lava's temperature as about...